Re: Questions regarding release
Re: Questions regarding release
- Subject: Re: Questions regarding release
- From: James Walker via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:43:45 -0700
On 9/26/19 4:20 PM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev wrote:
The issue in the below code to my eye is that you allocate a path with
CGPathCreateWithRect (+1) but then don't release it.
In that case, I am wondering:
doesn't ownership pass to the textlayer ?
If yes, shouldn't textlayer release the path when it gets destroyed by the ARC?
CALayer will indeed release shadowPath when it’s deallocated. However,
CALayer.setShadowPath doesn’t expect to be passed a +1 reference, so it will
retain/copy its argument, and it’s that retain which will be balanced by the
release during object destruction. Functions and methods generally do not
expect to be passed +1 objects.
So, if I understand you correctly, I should do this:
textlayer.shadowPath = CGPathCreateWithRect( textlayer.bounds, NULL );
CFRelease( textlayer.shadowPath )
?
Is that correct?
That's not completely clear. The documentation on shadowPath says "The
value of this property is retained using the Core Foundation
retain/release semantics". However, a comment in CALayer.h says "Upon
assignment the path is copied." If that's true, you'd be releasing the
copy, not the original. It would be safer to say:
CGPathRef thePath = CGPathCreateWithRect( textlayer.bounds, NULL );
textlayer.shadowPath = thePath;
CFRelease( thePath );
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