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Re: const vs. static CFStringRefs

CFSTR is just a macro. It's not incredibly magic. It just calls a private CF function. The macro body uses a trick to prevent the programmer from passing in anything other than a regular quoted string. (Probably the CF function fails somehow if you pass in a string that could potentially disappear.) As Larry would suggest, read the headers and it's all right there. :)

Neither version will behave significantly differently at runtime. Don't sweat it.


On Nov 30, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Stevo Brock wrote:

I guess I was asking more along the lines of memory allocation in the compiled file.  I should have stated my question differently.  I'm guessing the "static" version is a single memory allocation that can be referenced multiple times.  Does the "const" version end up being the same, or is it perhaps allocated every time it's referenced?  This all gets confusing in my head as I know that CFSTR is doing some behind-the-scenes stuff and I don't know what that is.


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