Re: NSString initWithUTF8String - crazy retainCount with empty string
Re: NSString initWithUTF8String - crazy retainCount with empty string
- Subject: Re: NSString initWithUTF8String - crazy retainCount with empty string
- From: "Simon Strandgaard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:39:21 +0100
On 3/24/07, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
On Mar 24, 2007, at 11:33 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?
It is not a bug.
[snip code]
This explains the constantly increasing retain count -- it is a
retain count on a behind-the-scenes global object that is never meant
to be deallocated. (Interestingly, that global object is not the
same as @"".)
[snip]
Thanks for your great efforts. Interesting observation about @"".
--
Simon Strandgaard
http://opcoders.com/
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