On Feb 12, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Mike Abdullah <cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net> wrote:
> > On 12 Feb 2012, at 02:49, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >> On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: >> >>> On Feb 11, 2012, at 5:25 PM, William Squires wrote: >>> >>>> is ARC a Lion-only feature or will an ARC-compiled app work on 10.6.8 >>>> assuming no other Lion features are used? >>> >>> Everything will work except for weak references, which aren’t available on >>> Snow Leopard. >> >> 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. > > 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. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
