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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: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:07:17 -0400

You could even eliminate the (admittedly negligible) cost of setting keepAlive = nil by changing the if(keepAlive) to if(!keepAlive).

Along the lines of avoiding a message send, I wonder if this would work:

do {
    // ...
} while (!self);

--Andy

> On Jul 18, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Gerd Knops <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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