Re: CFSTR

• Subject: Re: CFSTR
• From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:49:22 -0500
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:26:56 -0500, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/29/04 2:08 PM, Eric Gorr didst favor us with:
> 
> > At 2:01 PM -0500 11/29/04, Laurence Harris wrote:
> >> Under no circumstances should you release the string returned by CFSTR.
> >
> > You can if the CFRelease is balanced by a CFRetain.
> 
> True. In that case the string isn't released, the refcount is just
> decremented. I find it easiest to just think of CFSTR() as a CF "Get"
> function.
> 

<pedantic>
But it *is* released, it just isn't deallocated or destroyed. 
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFTypeRef/Reference/FunctionGroupIndex.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001203/F11071>
</pedantic>

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