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Re: Why shouldn't I release?



The result of -[retainCount] is not necessarily equal to its retain count from your point of view. It might be retained by something else that's not immediately obvious. For instance, your outputString will be released by the autoreleasepool. So yes, the retain count may be higher than 0, but that still means it's not up to you to do something about that in this case.

Good luck,
Hank

On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Ric L. wrote:





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On Nov 30, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Ric L. wrote:

By my reckoning, stringWithFormat should create a string with a
retain count of 1.


Why do you say that? Before you answer, refer to the memory management
policies here:


<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Concepts/ObjectOwnership.html

Well, after I wrote the message, I added a line:

   long retainCount = [outputString retainCount];

after the call to stringWithFormat and saw that it had a retain count of 1 - this would seem to settle the issue that I am correct on this point at least.

However, thanks for the pointer to the site, I will take a close look at it.



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