There are still situations that you may want a little touch-up so from time to 
time a manual call to these is still needed.

On Oct 24, 2013, at 2:01, Greg Parker <gpar...@apple.com> wrote:

> On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Maxthon Chan <xcvi...@me.com> wrote:
>> Despite ARC banned retain/release/autorelease functions, there are still 
>> alternatives there in the form of C functions:
>> 
>> From CoreFoundation <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>:
>> CFRetain() = retain
>> CFRelease() = release
>> CGBridgingRelease() = autorelease
> 
> CFBridgingRelease does not autorelease.
> 
> 
>> From LLVM’s requirements to runtime for ARC to work, as prototyped in 
>> GNUstep’s <objc/objc-arc.h>:
>> objc_retain() = retain
>> objc_release() = release
>> objc_autorelease() = autorelease
>> 
>> Prototypes:
>> id objc_retain(id);
>> void objc_release(id);
>> id objc_autorelease(id);
> 
> Do not call these functions directly.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Greg Parker     gpar...@apple.com     Runtime Wrangler
> 
> 

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