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Re: Memory management question
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Re: Memory management question


  • Subject: Re: Memory management question
  • From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:21:17 +0000

On 25 Mar 2004, at 00:23, Wade Tregaskis wrote:

>>> (The -retain increments the reference count, removing it from the
>>> autorelease pool, then the -release triggers the deallocation of the
>>> object.)
>>
>> This is the first I've ever heard that retain removes an object from
>> the autorelease pool. How does it know that the object is even *in*
>> an autorelease pool? And which pool? More info please.
>
> I'm pretty sure they are mistaken.

Yep. Apologies to anybody I managed to confuse, I was getting mixed-up
with something I wrote to do reference counting of message blocks
(where the equivalent of autorelease pools did have the semantic I
implied). Cocoa doesn't work that way.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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References: 
 >Memory management question (From: Randall Meadows <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Memory management question (From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Memory management question (From: Glen Simmons <email@hidden>)

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