Question

My project is ARC enabled (the build settings have Objective-C Reference Counting set to YES). There are no file exceptions to this, it is enabled project wide. (Latest stable version of Xcode).

When I create an NSManagedObject subclass via File > New for a Core Data entity, the generated header uses the following in its property declarations:

@property (nonatomic, retain)

But ‘retain’ is not ARC!! Is this a bug, or is there something I’m missing or not understanding? There are no build warnings – if this is a bug though, how can I remedy it?

Answer 1

retain is a synonym for strong. So it is perfectly valid to use retain or strong in this case.

For more detail check out this question.