Re: A quick memory (release) question
Re: A quick memory (release) question
- Subject: Re: A quick memory (release) question
- From: John Buckley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:15:08 +0000
Paul,
You are correct in stating that the rule is *any* object you create
via alloc and some sort of init method is implicitly retained and must
be released by the caller. AFAIK there are no exceptions to this.
The autoreleased version of initWithFormat is +stringWithFormat.
John
On 31/01/06, Paul Harvey <email@hidden> wrote:
> Two quick examples:
>
> 1 NSMutableAttributedString *ns = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]
> initWithString: chapterText];
>
> 2 NSString *lookFor = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@"\n%d",i];
>
> The rule for memory management says that if you obtain an object
> through alloc, you have retained it and it must be manually released
> at a later point.
>
> Yet methods like initWithFormat create an autoreleased object don't
> they?
>
> Trying to be a Good Programmer™ I was releasing the objects myself
> but that caused problems with my app, yet the problem has gone now
> i've removed these lines.
>
>
>
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