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Re: NSString initWithUTF8String - crazy retainCount with empty string
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Re: NSString initWithUTF8String - crazy retainCount with empty string


  • Subject: Re: NSString initWithUTF8String - crazy retainCount with empty string
  • From: mmalc crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:40:10 -0700


On Mar 24, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

I have asserts on retainCount a few places in my code,
and today I got surprised that with NSString sets a weird
retainCount when initialized with an empty string.
It looks like a bug to me?


Why are you looking at the retain count?
The only thing you should typically be interested in is, are you adhering to the memory management rules?
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Tasks/MemoryManagementRules.html >



So what's the safe way to get a NSString from a cstring?

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Strings/Articles/CreatingStrings.html >

mmalc

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