On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:
> The reason it's limited to 19 bits is because for speed purposes
> NSParagraphStyle implements its own inline retain count rather than
> relying on NSObject's external refcount table. Which is also why you
> can't make ARC weak references to NSParagraphStyle instances. ;-)

Yikes. Usually the inline bits are used for the *low order* bits of the retain 
count. That is, the full retain count is something like (internal_refs + 
(external_refs << internal_width). But in this case NSParagraphStyle does only 
seem to be using the internal bits:

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    NSParagraphStyle *pg = [NSParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle];
    for (;;) {
        for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
            [pg retain];
        NSLog(@"%ld", [pg retainCount]);
    }
    return 0;
}

2013-03-21 08:32:12.689 pgref[81462:707] 100001
2013-03-21 08:32:12.691 pgref[81462:707] 200001
2013-03-21 08:32:12.693 pgref[81462:707] 300001
2013-03-21 08:32:12.695 pgref[81462:707] 400001
2013-03-21 08:32:12.696 pgref[81462:707] 500001
2013-03-21 08:32:12.698 pgref[81462:707] 75713   <---- Nooooooo!
2013-03-21 08:32:12.700 pgref[81462:707] 175713
2013-03-21 08:32:12.702 pgref[81462:707] 275713
2013-03-21 08:32:12.704 pgref[81462:707] 375713
…


-tim


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