Douglas Purdy

Objective-C 2.0 Garbage Collection, Part II

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It turns out I was wrong (it will not be the last time) about the four apps I pegged as possibly using GC in 10.5 here.

Mark Rowe (engineer at Apple) posted a comment to my original post with what appears to be the definitive mechanism to determine if an app is using GC.

I spent some time digging around in otool before moving on to my (incorrect) heuristic of looking for certain imported symbols via nm.

I am happy to stand corrected.  Thanks Mark.

June 14th, 2008 at 8:27 am

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  1. [...] [Updated: The below list of apps is wrong. See http://www.douglaspurdy.com/2008/06/14/objective-c-20-garbage-collection-part-ii/. [...]

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