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