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Re: Why shouldn't I release?




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





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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:58:59 -0800


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.

True, it has a retain count of 1--if it had a retain count less than 1 it would have already been deallocated. stringWithFormat autoreleases the string, so it can be released when the autorelease pool is flushed. But, you've already released it by then (causing it already to be deallocated); and the deallocated object being released causes the crash.


Frank

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