Re: Overriding the release mehod
Re: Overriding the release mehod
- Subject: Re: Overriding the release mehod
- From: Dave <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:20:52 +0000
Cheers, I tried searching “release method definition” but that doesn’t bring it up - go figure!
All the Best
Dave
> On 25 Jan 2017, at 19:04, Doug Hill <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Dave <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>>> Look at Apple's Foundation NSObject protocol reference document for the -release method. It includes this statement:
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>> Could you point me to the URL I still can’t find it. Apple’s documentation is absolutely shocking! I’m looking at https://developer.apple.com/reference/objectivec/protocol?language=objc <https://developer.apple.com/reference/objectivec/protocol?language=objc> but no mention of release to be found?
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>> All the Best
>> Dave
>
> https://developer.apple.com/reference/objectivec/1418956-nsobject?language=objc <https://developer.apple.com/reference/objectivec/1418956-nsobject?language=objc>
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> release - Decrements the receiver’s reference count.
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> Language - Objective-C
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> Declaration
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> - (oneway void)release;
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> Discussion
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> The receiver is sent a dealloc message when its reference count reaches 0.
>
> You would only implement this method to define your own reference-counting scheme. Such implementations should not invoke the inherited method; that is, they should not include a release message to super.
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