Thanks all, you've saved me a fair bit of time having to experiment/research this further.
Just to clarify - none of the bundles (or the app) are using GC so it'll be an ARC app loading manual RR code. David - always worth pointing out the memory management conventions, it'll be something I have to keep in mind when testing the ARC app for the first time. Cheers, On 18 May 2012 17:37, David Duncan <david.dun...@apple.com> wrote: > On May 18, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Patrick Robertson wrote: > > > I'm (finally) looking at converting my non-ARC (Mac OS X) app over to > ARC, > > but also have quite a few external plugins/bundles which can be loaded > into > > the main app on runtime. > > My question is - can my ARC app load non-ARC bundles, or is this not > > possible. > > > ARC code can load manual RR code (and vice versa). This property is relied > upon by the OS. The most important thing to cross compatibility is that > both sides understand and follow the Cocoa memory management conventions > (or annotated exceptions), as otherwise you can get over-retain and > over-release bugs at the boundaries. > -- > David Duncan > > _______________________________________________ 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
