Re: Memory management question in Objective-C 2.0 @property notation
Re: Memory management question in Objective-C 2.0 @property notation
- Subject: Re: Memory management question in Objective-C 2.0 @property notation
- From: Devraj Mukherjee <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:21:56 +1100
Thanks again both of you.
assuming that I do self.name = [NSString string] and since it the
NSString helper message, I shouldn't have to release that in my
dealloc implementation.
Or am I understanding this incorrectly.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Kiel Gillard <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 05/02/2009, at 4:20 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Kiel Gillard <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> However, doing this will yield a memory leak:
>
> self.name = [[NSString alloc] init];
>
> ...because the property definition tells the compiler the methods it
>
> synthesizes should retain the value.
>
> You're right that it will leak in that case but you've given the wrong
> reason as to why. Memory management rules are covered by Apple's
> documentation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
> Thanks for your reply, Chris.
> I suggest that the code quoted above will yield a memory leak because the
> NSString instance allocated will have a retain count of two after the
> setName: message has be sent to self. To correct this error, I suggest that
> the code should read:
> self.name = [[[NSString alloc] init] autorelease];
> Under the heading of "Setter Semantics"
> of <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Articles/chapter_5_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001163-CH17-SW2>,
> I can see that Apple's documentation clearly states that the implementation
> of a property declared with a retain attribute will send a retain message to
> the value given in the right hand side of the assignment.
> I'm confused as to why else the memory would be leaking? Can you please
> identify my error?
> Thanks,
> Kiel
>
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