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Re: blocks and autorelease weirdness
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Re: blocks and autorelease weirdness


  • Subject: Re: blocks and autorelease weirdness
  • From: Julien Jalon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:36:32 +0200

I don't see anything wrong with the output being 1/2:

-(void) test
{
       testString = NULL;

       dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0), ^{
               dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{

                       NSString* aString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];* //
retain count is 1*
                       NSLog(@"retainCount: %d",[aString retainCount]);

                       testString = [aString retain]; *// retain count is 2*

                       [aString *auto*release]; *// retain count is still 2
- object will be released sometimes in the future*

                       dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                               NSLog(@"retainCount: %d",[testString
retainCount]);* // you can't assume the future release has already been
called*
                       });
               });
       });
}

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Henk Kampman
<email@hidden>wrote:

> Have a look at the following code
>
> -(void) test
> {
>        testString = NULL;
>
>        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0), ^{
>                dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
>
>                        NSString* aString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
>                        NSLog(@"retainCount: %d",[aString retainCount]);
>
>                        testString = [aString retain];
>
>                        [aString release];
>
>                        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
>                                NSLog(@"retainCount: %d",[testString
> retainCount]);
>                        });
>                });
>        });
> }
>
> As expected the output is:
>
> retainCount: 1
> retainCount: 1
>
> However when I change [aString release] to [aString autorelease] the output
> shows:
>
> retainCount: 1
> retainCount: 2
>
> Why?
>
> BTW I first noticed this behavior when my application started leaking the
> QTMovie objects I was creating in a block.
>
> -
>
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