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Cleaning up a singleton
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Cleaning up a singleton


  • Subject: Cleaning up a singleton
  • From: Sebastian Nowicki <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:07:10 +0800

Hi,
I have a bit of an odd problem, which may be the result of a bad design decision. My program wraps around a C library, which internally uses a global variable (structure) to manage things, and has functions to access the data. The library requires me to call a function which allocates memory to that global variable, and afterwards call a function which deallocates that memory. My singleton class calls the function to initialise in the init method, but I don't know how to deallocate the memory. Since singleton objects exist until the end of program execution, I assume dealloc wouldn't work with garbage collection. Calling dealloc on a singleton object doesn't even make sense. How would I handle this?


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Sebastian Nowicki

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