On 31 Oct, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 17:27 , Roland King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I must be missing something here. Why can't you just set up your 
>> CFSocketContext with CFRetain for the CFAllocatorRetainCallback, CFRelease 
>> for the CFAllocatorReleaseCallback and cast the object to the (void*)info 
>> paramter with (__bridge void*)yourObject when you put that into the 
>> CFSocketContext. Job done, the CFSocket code will call CFRetain() for you 
>> during CFSocketCreateConnectedToSocketSignature(), which will retain it 
>> before ARC releases the original, and will call CFRelease() when the socket 
>> deallocs. 
>> 
>> You don't want CFBridgingRetain() here because you aren't passing ownership 
>> to Core Foundation, you're just giving it the object and it's taking 
>> ownership and releasing it again via the retain and release methods you've 
>> told it to use in CFSocketContext. 
> 
> I wrote this based on some Apple sample code, never bothered to learn how to 
> properly use CFSocketContext. Nevertheless, is it okay to CF-manage an 
> NSObject subclass that's not one of Apple's toll-free bridged classes?
> 
> 

CFRetain() and CFRelease() on a cast-to-void*-or-CFTypeRef NSObject subclass 
are fine. You can treat an NSObject as a CFTypeRef for those memory management 
calls, yes. 
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