Re: ARC in Snow Leopard?
Re: ARC in Snow Leopard?
- Subject: Re: ARC in Snow Leopard?
- From: Dave Zarzycki <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:11:07 -0500
On Feb 12, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Mike Abdullah <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 12 Feb 2012, at 02:49, Kyle Sluder wrote:
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>> On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Charles Srstka <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 11, 2012, at 5:25 PM, William Squires wrote:
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>>>> is ARC a Lion-only feature or will an ARC-compiled app work on 10.6.8 assuming no other Lion features are used?
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>>> Everything will work except for weak references, which aren’t available on Snow Leopard.
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>> Also if you link against any frameworks that use were compiled with ARC, you will get spurious Console warnings about __ARCLite_ on Snow Leopard. These will supposedly be fixed in a future devtools release.
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> Furthermore, use of ARC requires the 64 bit runtime (unless I'm mistaken which on this instance I would love to be).
Technically speaking: ARC requires the modern Objective-C runtime, *not* 64-bit machines. For example, iOS uses the modern runtime too.
Dave Z.
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