<AWT Dev> [9] Review Request: 8037099 [macosx] Remove all references to GC from native OBJ-C code

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi,Petr.
The fix looks good. Thanks!

On 13.03.2014 19:45, Petr Pchelko wrote:
> Hello, AWT Team.
>
> Please review a huge but simple cleanup fix.
>
> The bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8037099
> The fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pchelko/9/8037099/webrev.01
>
> Now the Objective-C Garbage Collector is completely deprecated and we do not use it and will never use. But we still have some code that was used for GC.
> The problem is that under GC retain/release is not the same as CFRetain/CFRelease, but now it's absolutely the same.
>
> I've replaced all CFRetain/CFRelease to retain/release where possible, deleted the pattern CFRetain(o); [o release]; and removed finalize overrides.
> I know that in some places retain is not needed. But in this fix I've left it as is, because it's only a preparation for a big-native-memory-management-fix I'm preparing.
>
> Thank you.
> With best regards. Petr.
>
>


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Best regards, Sergey.