By "swift-style refcounting" I mean the object is reliably deallocated exactly when the last release is called. Following up on the response to comex, I would s

By "swift-style refcounting" I mean the object is reliably deallocated exactly when the last release is called. Following up on the response to comex, I would say I would get these semantics if I called objc_retainAutoreleasedReturnValue on the allocating method's return value, and it actually worked.