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Re: How do I temporary retain self, under ARC?
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Re: How do I temporary retain self, under ARC?


  • Subject: Re: How do I temporary retain self, under ARC?
  • From: Gerd Knops <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:41:16 -0500

That's similar to what I have used. Initially it started out simply as

	id	keepAlive=self;
	...
	keepAlive=nil;

but a few Xcode versions ago the static analyzer started complaining that it wasn't really doing anything. So that last line became

	if(keepAlive) { keepAlive=nil; }

which shut up the analyzer. [keepAlive self]; like Andy suggests would probably work just as well, though probably a tad more expensive as a method call is involved.

Gerd

On Jul 17, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Jul 17, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Once I’ve identified such a bug, the fix is easy: put a [[self retain] autorelease] at the top of the method. Except now I’m using ARC, and I can’t find a simple way of doing it. I tried adding
>> 	__unused id retainedSelf = self;
>> but the optimizer recognizes that retainedSelf isn’t used and strips it out, making this a no-op. The only thing I’ve found that works is
>> 	CFRetain((__bridge CFTypeRef)self);
>> at the top of the method, and a corresponding CFRelease at the end, but this is pretty ugly and could cause leaks if the method returns early.
>
> How about
>
> 	id retainedSelf = self;
>
> at the beginning and
>
> 	[retainedSelf self];
>
> at the end?
>
> --Andy
>
>
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