Where and how to __bridge

Question

I need some advice on __bridge-ing in iOS.

Hopefully the SSCCE¹ below will explain the problem better than I can in words, but I n

Answer 1

I'm not actually sure why this works, but I've found the solution to be:

NSMutableArray *array = (__bridge NSMutableArray*) info;

//AND

CGPathApply(path, (__bridge void*)pathPoints, _processPathElement);

If anyone can explain why this works and confirm that there aren't (/are) any memory leaks I'd be grateful