On Sep 13, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Markus Spoettl wrote:
The process's entire memory space is freed when it terminates.
Because of this, objects may not ever receive a dealloc message.
The documentation for -[NSObject dealloc] discusses this.
Yes, I know but it isn't exactly helpful in determining whether
you're leaking memory or not. -dealloc: may not be called because
the system decides it's better not to - or - because you have a bug
in your memory management.
But application termination is obviously a special case. You don't
test for leaks by quitting your program. If dealloc is not called when
it should be (in a non-garbage-collected app), then you've probably
leaked it. (You may also just not realize that it really shouldn't
have been called yet ;-)
--
Seth Willits
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