Bug 125170 – [iOS] Enable Objective-C ARC when building JSC tools for iOS Simulator

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Daniel Bates]

When compiling testapi.mm for i386 to run with the iOS Simulator I got build errors of the form:

.../Source/JavaScriptCore/API/tests/testapi.mm:158:1: error: method possibly missing a [super dealloc] call [-Werror,-Wobjc-missing-super-calls]
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In particular, Clang is complaining that we're missing a call to [super dealloc] in [-TextXYZ  dealloc] and [EvilAllocationObject dealloc]:
<http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/tests/testapi.mm?rev=159351#L172>
<http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/tests/testapi.mm?rev=159351#L440>

[Daniel Bates]

Created attachment 218314 [details]
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[Geoffrey Garen]

Comment on attachment 218314 [details]
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r=me

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Comment on attachment 218314 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=218314&action=review

> Source/JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog:10
> +        (-[EvilAllocationObject dealloc]): Add call to [super dealloc] when building without ARC
> +        (say, on a 32-bit Mac using Objective-C ABI < 2).

What's the motivation for this change? The code in question is never compiled in 32-bit since it's wrapped in #if JSC_OBJC_API_ENABLED.

[Daniel Bates]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (From update of attachment 218314 [details])
> View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=218314&action=review
> 
> > Source/JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog:10
> > +        (-[EvilAllocationObject dealloc]): Add call to [super dealloc] when building without ARC
> > +        (say, on a 32-bit Mac using Objective-C ABI < 2).
> 
> What's the motivation for this change? The code in question is never compiled in 32-bit since it's wrapped in #if JSC_OBJC_API_ENABLED.

The added calls to [super dealloc] are unnecessary and I will remove them before landing this patch. We should also look to remove the existing !__has_feature(objc_arc)-guarded code from file Source/JavaScriptCore/API/tests/testapi.mm.

Additional remarks:

The change log comment about adding [super dealloc] is misleading. What I meant to write was:

(-[EvilAllocationObject dealloc]): Added call to [super dealloc] when building without ARC (say, when explicitly setting CLANG_ENABLE_OBJC_ARC_i386_iphonesimulator to NO and building for iOS Simulator on a 32-bit Mac using Objective-C ABI < 2).

For some reason I thought to support building without ARC for 32-bit iOS Simulator builds, including older versions of the iOS Simulator, say version < 4.0. It's unnecessary to support such older versions of iOS Simulator.

[Daniel Bates]

Committed r160131: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/160131>