Re: GC and backward compatibility?
Re: GC and backward compatibility?
- Subject: Re: GC and backward compatibility?
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:19:56 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research
On 10/27/07 12:44 PM, Nick Zitzmann said:
>Let's say I make a framework that uses the usual retain/release
>mechanisms, but I want to use GC anyway. So I turn on GC support, but
>do not turn on the "GC required" option.
>
>What effect does this have on the framework's backward compatibility?
>Will the framework still be loadable in applications running under
>Tiger? Panther? Earlier?
>
>Now what if the application uses GC? What then?
I'm not really sure, but one thing I discovered that might interest you
to know, is that Rosetta does not support GC-applications.
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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