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Comment by asarazan

I would disagree pretty strongly with that. The function CFMakeCollectable is explicitly a function for dealing with the garbage collector, and its unpredictability in non-garbage-collected code is the direct cause of the bug.

Doesn't it make sense to say that without the existence of Apple GC, the bug never would have existed? Doesn't that at least somewhat justify the title?

edit: Furthermore the original intent of including garbage collection in the title was as an ironic twist based on the fact that ios has never had garbage collection. Maybe that didn't convey as well as I would have liked.

parent asarazan 13 years ago

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