performSelector may cause a leak because its selector is unknown

Question

I\'m getting the following warning by the ARC compiler:

\"performSelector may cause a leak because its selector is unknown\".

Here\'s what

Answer 1

In the LLVM 3.0 compiler in Xcode 4.2 you can suppress the warning as follows:

#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Warc-performSelector-leaks"
    [self.ticketTarget performSelector: self.ticketAction withObject: self];
#pragma clang diagnostic pop

If you're getting the error in several places, and want to use the C macro system to hide the pragmas, you can define a macro to make it easier to suppress the warning:

#define SuppressPerformSelectorLeakWarning(Stuff) \
    do { \
        _Pragma("clang diagnostic push") \
        _Pragma("clang diagnostic ignored \"-Warc-performSelector-leaks\"") \
        Stuff; \
        _Pragma("clang diagnostic pop") \
    } while (0)

You can use the macro like this:

SuppressPerformSelectorLeakWarning(
    [_target performSelector:_action withObject:self]
);

If you need the result of the performed message, you can do this:

id result;
SuppressPerformSelectorLeakWarning(
    result = [_target performSelector:_action withObject:self]
);