On Feb 18, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Seth Willits wrote: > On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote: > >>> If garbage collection is finally available, >>> you never need to release anything - as in RB. >> >> Except that it's still Objective-C, which means that one will be >> able to evade memory management. This means that it will be >> possible to do it by accident, and so the need for complex malloc/ >> free problem hunting will remain, though perhaps that need will be >> reduced. > > I don't follow what you mean. If you mean that if you turn garbage > collection on and accidently call -release somewhere that this will > be a hard bug to track down, you'd be wrong. It ignores -retain, - > release, and -autorelease.
Any valid C program is also a valid Objective-C program. Thus it is certainly possible to include C code whose garbage will not be collected. Given that it is possible, it is then also possible to do it by accident. Charles Yeomans _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
