Objective-C Library - cannot form weak reference to instance of class

Question

I\'m currently working with the XMPP Library for Objective-C, and I\'m using the \"Desktop\" example code.

It logs in fine; however, when I open a new chat, or someone s

Answer 1

Looking at Mike Ash's blog, I found an interesting paragraph:

ARC's implementation of zeroing weak references requires close coordination between the Objective-C reference counting system and the zeroing weak reference system. This means that any class which overrides retain and release can't be the target of a zeroing weak reference. While this is uncommon, some Cocoa classes, like NSWindow, suffer from this limitation. Fortunately, if you hit one of these cases, you will know it immediately, as your program will crash with a message like this:

objc[2478]: cannot form weak reference to instance (0x10360f000) of class NSWindow

If you really must make a weak reference to classes such as these, you can use the __unsafe_unretained qualifier in place of __weak.

Did you turn ARC on in your app? If you turn it off, do you get better results?