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Asked: 2026-05-26T01:31:40+00:00

I have a Mac OS X App that I need to store objective-c objects

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I have a Mac OS X App that I need to store objective-c objects in stl containers (as pointers). Everything works fine until I compile the program with garbage collection “supported” due to a custom framework that I need to use.

Problem is all the objects that get stored in the stl containers get released. Is there a way to tell the compiler to not collect those away and I’ll release them when I’m done with them?

Is this possible? Is there a way to have a framework that uses garbage collection and the main program doesn’t? That would also solve my problem. I can recompile the framework, but it heavily relies on GC.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can disable garbage collection for individual objects using NSGarbageCollector‘s disableCollectorForPointer: method. It will then hang around until you call -enableCollectorForPointer: on it.

    I believe (but I’m not totally sure) you can also use CFRetain/CFRelease on NSObject subclasses for more or less the same effect.

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