written at that point in the program, which avoids the overhead of
copying a block to the heap in the common case.</p>
+<p>The conversion from a lambda to a block pointer is only available
+in Objective-C++, and not in C++ with blocks, due to its use of
+Objective-C memory management (autorelease).</p>
+
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