Yes - so the more appropriate question is why it was retained 4 times. I don't see Cocoa doing it. It's the programmer - mostly. Could you give us more code?
Cocoa gives us a very reliable way to know, when an object is released: If the reference count goes down to 0. The question now is how to bring it down to 0. Maybe these could be of help: <http://www.friday.com/bbum/2010/01/10/using-malloc-to-debug-memory-misuse-in-cocoa/> <http://chanson.livejournal.com/147902.html> Both have some special tips which helped me a couple of months ago. Am 18.07.2011 um 16:17 schrieb Ryan Joseph: > Sure, I get reference counted memory and it could very well be true that > Cocoa has no intent on releasing this at anytime I could expect and that was > its design. > > If that's true when I would ask WHEN will it be deallocated? I'm leaking > memory like crazy allocating these objects and would argue it's bad design on > Cocoas part to not give the programmer a reliable way to know when it's > memory will be released, as for example we may need to perform some clean up > when the object is released. > > I wonder why Cocoa has retained it 4 times and what it plans to do with it > since I don't see thing that will cause the memory to be released. > > Thanks. > > On Jul 18, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Peter wrote: > >> Maybe I am missing something, but given your example - which in some sense >> contradicts your comment, why do you expect dealloc to be called? >> If the retain count is in fact > 0 after the release (4 in your example >> below) dealloc is not called, since the view can not yet be deallocated. >> View.release just means "*I* (i.e. the caller) don't care about you any >> longer". But if some other object still cares (i.e. the retain count > 0, as >> in your example), dealloc won't be called. In short: release != dealloc. Or >> the other way round: only after x retains are balanced by the same number of >> release messages, dealloc eventually will be called by the runtime and the >> object is finally cleaned up and purged from memory. >> >> Sorry if I am getting you wrong and point out the obvious ... > > Regards, > Ryan Joseph > thealchemistguild.com _______________________________________________ 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
