Hi Joe,

I think we can probably elide CFGetRetainCount from the corelibs-foundation. 
It’s almost always an anti-pattern to check a retain count anyway (as I’m sure 
you’re aware since you’re trying to kill the swift version of it).

File a bug for us and we’ll get on it.

Thanks,
- Tony

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Joe Groff via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Joe Groff via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> It looks like the corelibs implementation of CoreFoundation references 
>> swift_retainCount in order to implement CFGetRetainCount. Is getting the 
>> retain count necessary to CF functionality, or can these functions be 
>> removed?
> 
> The only use of CFGetRetainCount in the corelibs that I see appears to be in 
> CFMachPort.c, to drop CFMachPorts that are uniquely referenced from the run 
> loop. Is that file relevant to Linux Foundation? Is this check necessary?
> 
> -Joe
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