kolinkrewinkel/KKGridView — comment on commit 7689d5e57c6d2da3d547922df1651040039a10d6
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By jonsterling:

No. The entire point of `__autorelease` was to provide support for return by write back. It's not a way to tell the compiler you want something to be autoreleased; in almost all cases (except for when writing to a pointer), it works automatically. This is how ARC works.