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Re: NSZone pointers
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David Chisnall |
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Re: NSZone pointers |
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Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:51:34 +0100 |
On 21 Jul 2011, at 14:27, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2011, at 14:16, Ivan Vučica wrote:
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>> I didn't even bother looking up what zones are for until now.
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> They're not used very much anymore, because half of Cocoa is not zone-aware.
> On OS X, zones are opaque, so they're not even very useful, they just act as
> hints for the allocation policy.
Oh, and apparently I missed that in Objective-C 2 they were removed.
+allocWithZone: on OS X now apparently ignores the zone pointer and -zone
always returns the default malloc() zone.
David