ARC & Autorelease pool question

[Andreas Fink]

Hello all

I am chasing a memory leak in my application and came to the conclusion that my 
code is not leaking anything but most probably is gnustep-base adding stuff to 
the autoreleasepool which never gets flushed. My understanding of ARC however 
was that the autorelease pool mechanism is kind of obsolete now as objects 
automatically get tossed when there's no reference of it. So a method returning 
an object will return a non released object. Thats why my code has nowhere any 
autorelease call. 

However if gnustep base still adds object for legacy reasons to the pool, I 
must flush it every once in a while. The problem I'm having is that I have 
massive multithreaded code and absolutely nothing happens in the main event 
loop except waiting for a shutdown signal.

My question is simple: What is the correct way to compile gnustep-base with ARC 
so it wont even use autorelease pools at all. Or is this not possible?

I now populated my code with massive amounts of @autorelease { ... } in the 
meantime but I consider this ugly.

Andreas