Download Garbage Collection Programming Guide (Retired

Introduction to Garbage Collection
See Also
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Implementing a finalize Method (page 32) describes how to correctly implement a finalize method.
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Inapplicable Patterns (page 36) describes Cocoa programming patterns that are not applicable to garbage
collection.
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Using Core Foundation with Garbage Collection (page 39) describes how to use Core Foundation objects
with garbage collection.
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Garbage Collection API (page 46) provides a summary of API used in garbage collection.
See Also
The following documents provide information about related aspects of Cocoa and the Objective-C language.
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The Objective-C Programming Language describes object-oriented programming and describes the
Objective-C programming language.
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Objective-C Runtime Reference describes the data structures and functions of the Objective-C runtime
support library.
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Transitioning to ARC Release Notes provides information adopting Automatic Reference Counting.
Retired Document | 2012-07-23 | Copyright © 2012 Apple Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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