[Interest] [OSX/iOS] Garbage collection still in place in Qt?

[Raul Metsma]

ARC is supported since OSX 10.7 (10.6 limited) and 64bit only.

Raul

> On 03 Mar 2015, at 16:33, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday March 03 2015 11:14:32 Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
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>> I'm not a Cocoa expert, but I think the last time I looked into Cocoa (OS X) related Qt source there was still "garbage collection" in place.
>> 
>> I assume the same holds for iOS (although I am currently more interested in OS X).
>> 
>> I haven't seen this topic been discussed yet here on qt-interest (I am also posting this here, instead of on qt-developer, since I am only interested in a quick and "high-level" discussion, from a Qt user point of view).
> 
> 
> I'm not an expert in this matter either, but from what I understood applications simply had to indicate whether they were compatible with GC - which entailed *not* doing certain *in*compatible things. I'm probably wrong on that point, but perusal of the migration guide (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/ObjectiveC/RN-TransitioningToARC/Introduction/Introduction.html) seems to confirm my impression that as long as one uses ObjC according to the ARC rules one can simply remove anything GC-related.
> 
> Reading the note at the bottom of that page, I'd be more concerned about something else: Qt's use of Carbon.
> 
> R.
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