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Re: Question about garbage collection


  • Subject: Re: Question about garbage collection
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:45:57 +1100

On 04/01/2010, at 4:59 AM, Michael Abendroth wrote:

> When I write something like:
>
> while (true) {
>   NSString *s = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"applejuice"];
> }
>
> Will s be garbage collected? If not, how can I make sure it does get
> deallocated by garbage collection.


As written, it's academic, as your program will never proceed beyond this point, and will eventually crash with an out of memory error.

--Graham


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