I figured you'd come in after I wrote that... The problem for CoreBase is
that it has to know those internal details regardless of what happens.

On Apr 16, 2017 13:11, "David Chisnall" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 Apr 2017, at 17:29, Stefan Bidigaray <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The way I understand ARC in libobjc2, it simply increments the
> pointer-sized integer in the object header.
>
> Note: This is an implementation detail of libobjc2 and not part of the
> public interface.  Please use objc_retain, rather than relying on this
> directly, as it may change in future versions (I have some plans to use the
> top bits of the class pointer for a refcount on 64-bit platforms).
>
> David
>
>
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