Retired Document
Important: Garbage Collection is deprecated in OS X v10.8. Instead, you should use Automatic Reference Counting—see Transitioning to ARC Release Notes.
Document Revision History
This table describes the changes to Garbage Collection Programming Guide.
| Date | Notes |
|---|---|
| 2012-07-23 | Noted that garbage collection is deprecated in OS X v10.8. |
| 2011-10-03 | Added link to ARC Transition Release Notes. |
| 2010-08-27 | Corrected a class declaration in "Using Core Foundation with Garbage Collection". |
| 2008-11-19 | Added note that Foundation programs need to use objc_startCollectorThread(). |
| 2008-10-15 | Clarified behavior of CFMakeCollectable. |
| 2008-03-11 | Corrected typographical errors. |
| 2007-12-11 | Added an article to discuss integrating Core Foundation and garbage collection. |
| 2007-10-31 | Corrected minor typographical errors. |
| 2007-07-12 | Corrected minor typographical errors. |
| Leopard WWDC | New document that describes the garbage collection system for Cocoa. |
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