On Jan 10, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Glenn L. Austin wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Scott Ribe wrote:
> 
>> Also, an isAutoReleased message would be worthless. At any point in time,
>> you have no idea how many times library routines that you've called might
>> have retained/released/autoreleased, nor should you care.
> 
> Actually, it would be nice to have *in a debugging context* since trying to 
> track down a pointer that is in the autorelease pool the number of times it 
> has been retained when you do a release would be very beneficial.  Yes, it 
> would slow things down, but it would sure save a lot of time when trying to 
> track down a spurious release!

"The" autorelease pool? Frequently they nest... and there could be multiple 
pools in each thread.

Dave_______________________________________________

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