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Re: Trying to intentionally create a memory leak



On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Jake <email@hidden> wrote:

> I am trying to create a simple Cocoa app that has an intentional memory
> leak so that I can play with the development tools Instruments, MallocDebug
> and leaks to learn how to detect memory leaks.  I have a Cocoa console
> application that has code that I was sure would leak - [NSNumber alloc] with
> no corresponding release.   But when I run those tools I detect no leak.


NSNumber is a class cluster, so its +alloc is probably just returning a
singleton placeholder. Have you tried fully initializing the NSNumber
instances? Have you tried using NSObject instead?

sherm--
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