Re: Autorelease question
Re: Autorelease question
- Subject: Re: Autorelease question
- From: Paul Bruneau <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:26:39 -0400
Hi, Daniel-
You are right. I think you did a great job of troubleshooting the
problem.
In your first branch, you alloc'd and init'd your dictionary which
gives you a retained object.
in your second branch, you used what is called a "convenience method"
to get your dictionary which comes to you already autoreleased.
Read about it here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmPractical.html
You seem to have a good grasp of what is happening. Reading the above
will give you the background of why.
On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote:
Hello,
I have the following code :
if (![fileMgr fileExistsAtPath: indexFilePath]) {
NSMutableDictionary *index = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[index setObject: [NSNumber numberWithLong: DEFAULTS_BLOCKSIZE]
forKey: INDEXKEY_BLOCKSIZE];
[index setObject: [NSNumber numberWithLong:
DEFAULTS_BLOCKSPERPAGE] forKey: INDEXKEY_BLOCKSPERPAGE];
_blockSize = DEFAULTS_BLOCKSIZE;
_blocksPerPage = DEFAULTS_BLOCKSPERPAGE;
if (![index writeToFile: indexFilePath atomically: YES]) {
_dirPath = nil;
NSLog(LOGMSG_INDEXFILENOTWRITABLE);
}
[index release];
} else {
NSDictionary *index = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:
indexFilePath];
if (nil == [index objectForKey: INDEXKEY_BLOCKSIZE]) {
NSLog(LOGMSG_INDEXFILEOUTOFFORMAT);
_dirPath = nil;
} else
_blockSize = [(NSNumber*)[index objectForKey: INDEXKEY_BLOCKSIZE]
longValue];
if (nil == [index objectForKey: INDEXKEY_BLOCKSPERPAGE]) {
NSLog(LOGMSG_INDEXFILEOUTOFFORMAT);
_dirPath = nil;
} else
_blocksPerPage = [(NSNumber*)[index objectForKey:
INDEXKEY_BLOCKSPERPAGE] longValue];
[index release];
}
the [index release] on the second branch gives me the following
output on the debugger window :
TestRunnrer(1661) malloc: *** error for object 0x112a50: double free
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
in the enclosing scope I have set up an autorelease pool. What I am
suspecting is that when I init the dictionary with a file it is
autoreleased, and then the error when I do the release. I this the
case ? If so where do I know when some object is created
autoreleased or not ? In the NSDictionary's reference page there is
nothing mentioned.
Many thanks
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