[cfe-dev] ARC and refcount semantics attributes
Chris Lattner
clattner at apple.com
Mon Jul 18 09:23:36 PDT 2011
On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:18 AM, George King wrote:
> Hi list, I just discovered these attributes on a page about the static analyzer:
>
> __attribute((ns_return_retained))
> __attribute((ns_consumed))
>
> I am curious whether the current implementation of ARC respects these attributes, or if there are plans to support them.
Yep, they are. More information about ARC is here:
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html
> It seems important that it would for cases where autorelease pools are not practical.
What do you mean?
-Chris
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