> any classical C style programming will segfault as in plain C.

As I wrote, you wrap those in an Objective-C container that manages that pointer, and delegate the C access to that container.

So not:

    c_pointer = [container getPointer]
    <munge on pointer>

But rather:

    [container doSomeMungingOnYourCData];

Which is, of course, how you should be doing things in OO style anyhow. So that works out just fine.

But yes, some people do insist on doing things the hard, slow, nasty way. They get punished.