Re: HNUstep and Garbage Collection

[Sašo Kiselkov]

Quoting Adrian Robert <arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu>:

> Note, however, a quick look at the source shows that the macros
> mentioned here are unneeded -- if GNUstep is compiled with GC, -
> retain and -release impls are #ifdef'd out.

Quoting: Objective-C GNUstep Base Programming Manual, Section 3.2.3, Paragraph 5
> Some authorities recommend that you always use the RETAIN/RELEASE macros in
> place of the actual method calls, in order to allow running in a non-garbage
> collecting GNUstep environment yet also save unneeded method calls in the case
> your code runs in a garbage collecting enviromnent.

So it isn't like they have no purpose at all.

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Saso