[Openmcl-devel] Cocoa and memory management

[Ron Garret]

Yes, that seems to be the Right Answer.  Apparently, the ns-image constructor allocates stuff in the autorelease pool.  Thanks!

On Jul 5, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Willem Rein Oudshoorn wrote:

> Just my two cents,
> I do not think that Cocoa guarentees that if you do
> 
> [[[SomeNiceClass alloc] initWith: ...] release]
> 
> that all memory is immediately freed.
> I think that the init/release methods of SomeNiceClass are allowed
> to autorelease some ivars.
> 
> One way of testing this is to explicitly create and release autorelease pools
> in your loop.
> 
> Wim Oudshoorn.
> 
> 
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