Re: mutableBytes Creates Autoreleased Objects
Re: mutableBytes Creates Autoreleased Objects
- Subject: Re: mutableBytes Creates Autoreleased Objects
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 14:05:11 -0700
On May 12, 2012, at 13:55 , Dave Fernandes wrote:
> So when a method is declared __attribute__ ((objc_returns_inner_pointer)), then LLVM tracks regular pointers like it would NSObject pointers to see when the owning object can be dealloced? Just want to make sure I understand.
… to see when the owning object's variable's compile time scope ends. Other retain/release optimizations aside, that would be the point where its retain count is decremented, and that might in turn trigger deallocation.
But, yes, basically that's how I understand the documentation. It seems *way* too convenient to be true. ;)
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