On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
I am looking for a strategy to avoid implementing a -finalize method in a garbage-collected Objective-C class that declares a CFTypeRef- style Core Foundation instance variable. I believe this is a fairly common problem, because any Cocoa wrapper class for a Core Foundation API would have to do it, but I haven't seen a usable solution. Apple's GC documentation stops just short of suggesting an answer.
I believe you're supposed to declare your CFTypeRef ivar as __strong and call CFMakeCollectable so that the garbage collector will be responsible for releasing it. You can still use CFRelease in -dealloc for when you aren't running under garbage collection.
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