On Jan 3, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > On 04/01/2010, at 4:59 AM, Michael Abendroth wrote: > >> When I write something like: >> >> while (true) { >> NSString *s = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"applejuice"]; >> } >> >> Will s be garbage collected? If not, how can I make sure it does get >> deallocated by garbage collection. > > > As written, it's academic, as your program will never proceed beyond this > point, and will eventually crash with an out of memory error.
In Leopard, definitely. In Snow Leopard, maybe not. It is a rather contrived test case, but it is much more difficult to outrun the collector in Snow Leopard than it was in Leopard. b.bum _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com