Just a really quickly written refcounting base class to be inherited from

Any custom object you've written can enable reference counting by just inheriting from ReferenceCounted.

It works very similar to manual reference counting in Objective-C. Calling retain increases it's reference count Calling release decreases it's reference count When its reference count hits zero it will automatically be freed.

It can be used in a few different ways

• You can compile it on your own and link it with your own source code that you want to use it in. #include "refcount.h" will give you access to everything

• You can compile it into a static library called librefcount.a by running "make local". This can be used by #including "refcount.h" and linking it with your project by using adding the following flags: -L(dir of librefcount.a) -lrefcount

• You can compile it into a dynamic library and install it on your system. This is the easiest way to use it but necessitates that all users have the library installed on their system. You can do this by running make install (and make uninstall to remove) and #include anywhere it's used