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ARC

NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing

July 15, 2024 by
Grumpy Cat frowning, with the caption "NO".

NSCopyObject is a very old Foundation function – pre-dating Mac OS X entirely; from the NeXT era – that was originally basically just memcpy, but now it’s complicated. A lot more complicated… Read more

Categories Coding Tags Apple, ARC, Broken by design, copy(with:), fixupCopiedIvars, NeXT, NSAnimation, NSCell, NSCopying, NSImageRep, Objective-C, Sad, Swift Leave a comment

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