site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com but UINT_MAX is 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) so what does 0x7FFFFFFF mean? thanks On Jul 4, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Dmitry Markman wrote: Hi CFGetRetainCount returns 2147483647 (0x7FFFFFFF) what does it mean? CFGetRetainCount documentation doesn't have any info about that header (CFBase.h) doesn't have any comment thanks Dmitry Markman _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/dmarkman%40mac.com Dmitry Markman _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... well I found some information in the NSObject's retainCount method documentation: "You rarely send a retainCount message; however, you might implement this method in a class to implement your own reference-counting scheme. For objects that never get released (that is, theirrelease method does nothing), this method should return UINT_MAX, as defined in <limits.h>" This email sent to dmarkman@mac.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com