see what ARC does?

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If I understand correctly, all ARC does is automatically add memory-management statements such as retain and autorelease in the proper places in a program. Is there any way to see all the memory-management statements that ARC automatically adds to a program?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '12 at 08:40

In Xcode's assistant editor, choose to view the Assembly for the file you're working on. You should see calls to functions like objc_retain and similar; these are the functions inserted by the compiler to support ARC.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '13 at 01:16

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You can use CFGetRetainCount to see the retain count:

CFGetRetainCount( (__bridge void*) object );

answered Jan 08 '13 at 01:16

Ramy Al Zuhouri

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see what ARC does?

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