Have C++ class manage life of Objective-C class?

Question

Here is what I am not sure about:

I have a c++ class that will create and own an obj-C object and very simply, when that C++ class is constructed I call:

this->objCObject = [ThatObject new];

But how do I deal with destroying the ObjC object in ~MyCPPClass() ? Under ARC there is no retain/release.

Thanks

Answer 1

You could disable ARC for the specific file that contains your CPP class. That will give you the freedom to use retain/release in your CPP class.

If you have multiple cases that need the same trick, you could look at the shared_ptr for Objective-C objects