Introduction

iGC SDK 2.0 contains libraries, headers, compiler patches and other files for creating garbage collected iOS applications. This document provides required information on how to use iGC for iOS app development. iGC is not a clone of Apple’s MacOSX GC, or Microsoft .NET, or others. iGC is based on a special version of HnxGC , to provide uncompromised experiences of object lifetime management for iOS app development.

Table of Contents

• Quick Start Guide
  • Preparation
  • Installation
  • Getting Started: the “Hello World”
  • Coding in a GC way
  • Further readings
• iGC Overview
  • Accurate, pause-less and cross-platform
  • Immediate reclamation
  • Multiple inheritance
  • Reclamation control
  • Objective-C support
  • Other features
  • Summary
• Programming Essential
  • Objective-C
  • C++
  • Objective-C++
• Array (Objective-C)
  • native array
  • NSArray
  • NSDictionary and NSSet
• Array (C++)
  • Create a scalar-type array
  • Reference and hold an element of an array
  • Create an array of managed pointers
  • Create an array of objects
• Blocks
  • Block Retain Cycles
  • Notification Block Retain Cycles
  • Automatic Block Copy
• Class (Objective-C)
  • Class Inheritance
  • C++ smart pointer as ivar
  • Custom traverse routine
• Class (C++)
  • Create a GC enabled class
  • Casting field from/to struct
  • Embedding objects inside another
  • Multiple inheritance
  • Type casting
• GC and Tuning
  • Explicitly invoke GC
  • The background collector
  • Automatic GC invocations
  • Tailor GC features
• Linear Pool
  • The concepts
  • Create Objective-C objects
  • Create C++ objects
• Other iGC Subjects
  • Object reclamations
  • Compiler and Linker flags
  • Performance
  • Limitations
  • Common errors
• Programming Reference
  • Predefined Macros
  • General C functions
  • Objective-C keywords & methods
  • C++ helper functions
  • C++ smart pointers
  • Objective-C++ smart pointers and helpers
  • Linear Pool and Linear Pool Stack
  • Special functions and helpers
• Glossary

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page

Footnotes

HnxGC is a product name of a U.S. patented automatic memory management system.