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Re: NSMutableString question
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Re: NSMutableString question


  • Subject: Re: NSMutableString question
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:07:14 +1000


On 17 Sep 2008, at 10:59 am, Dave DeLong wrote:

NSString * str = [NSMutableString string];
//do stuff with str
[[str retain] release];

HOWEVER, that might cause funky things to happen with the autorelease pool. So the best idea is to do nothing and let the autorelease pool take care of it.

Back to school ;-)

This does nothing at all. It increments the retain count, then decrements it again. It doesn't cause anything "funky" with the autorelease pool nor does it reclaim the memory occupied by the string. It does nothing. Release != dealloc. However, the advice "you don't need to do anything" is correct - the string will be autoreleased.

Review:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/MemoryMgmt.html


hth,

Graham
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