<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Joe Groff <<a href="mailto:jgroff@apple.com" class="">jgroff@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hey Greg, what are the correct refcounting bits now to set in a global statically-emitted heap object that shouldn't ever be released?</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>For now use the same thing that stack-allocated objects use. I forget what the bit pattern is exactly. (I assume you are not in strictly read-only memory and can tolerate writes to the refcount word. We don't yet have an implementation for immortal read-only objects.)</div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- </div><div class="">Greg Parker <a href="mailto:gparker@apple.com" class="">gparker@apple.com</a> Runtime Wrangler</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>