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Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key
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Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key


  • Subject: Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key
  • From: Dave Carrigan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:31:36 -0700


On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Carter R. Harrison wrote:

If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this?

I'm racking my brains trying to think of a good reason to do this and am drawing a blank. I can, however, think of myriad bad reasons.


Right now I'm doing this:

int i;
for (i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++)
{
NSObject *myObject = [[NSObject alloc] init];
[dictionary setValue:myObject forKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%x", &myObject]];
}


The above does seem to work, but the memory address that I get always seems to be the same.

myObject is a variable (of type pointer) that is allocated on the stack. Its address is always going to be the same inside that tight loop, since the stack pointer isn't changing.


--
Dave Carrigan
email@hidden
Seattle, WA, USA

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