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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW --- - Objective-C compiler and static analyzer fail to warn about properties to objc-object that are 'assign' instead of 'weak' / 'strong'"
   href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25259">25259</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Objective-C compiler and static analyzer fail to warn about properties to objc-object that are 'assign' instead of 'weak' / 'strong'
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>-New Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>mayer.julian@googlemail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>i just lost 3 hours in a complicated debug session because one of the
properties in my project was assign:
@property (nonatomic, assign) NSArray *fontFamilyNames;
instead of strong:
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray *fontFamilyNames;

since the object was used in cocoa bindings but actually deallocated this
resulted in a strange crash somewhere deep inside Apple's frameworks, and only
'malloc_history' was able to show the culprit.

i can not understand why no warning was triggered, despite using -Wall
-Weverything and running the static analyzer

using Apple LLVM version 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)


i'm not the only one wishing this would result in a warning:

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31880445/xcode-warning-if-using-assign-attribute-for-reference-types-objects">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31880445/xcode-warning-if-using-assign-attribute-for-reference-types-objects</a>


i guess not only assign but 'unsafe unretained' should also warn</pre>
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