Re: Newbie question regarding Learning Cocoa
Re: Newbie question regarding Learning Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Newbie question regarding Learning Cocoa
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:37:17 -0700
On Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at 06:01 AM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
On Monday, June 4, 2001, at 07:52 , Finlay Dobbie wrote:
@"Hello world" is actually an NSString object, which I think might be
autoreleased, I'm not sure..
It's not autoreleased, it's static. That means that it's part of the
code,
it exists in RAM as long as the class exists there. So don't call
retain,
release or autorelease on a static NSString.
Aren't -retain and -release NoOps on a static NSConstantString instance?
-jcr
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