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Re: When to 'release' in Cocoa management?
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Re: When to 'release' in Cocoa management?


  • Subject: Re: When to 'release' in Cocoa management?
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:38:21 +1000


On 21/08/2009, at 5:32 PM, DairyKnight wrote:

NSDate *date = [[NSDate alloc] init];
[picker setDate:date];
[date release]; // Opps! immediate release of 'date' causes program crash.



So is there a rule of thumb, like when should we release immediately after
passing the object to some Cocoa API calls?


This should work OK, so if it's crashing, you have a bug elsewhere.

Once you are no longer interested in an object, you are free to release it. Another object that needs to keep it will retain it.

--Graham


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