I feel the need to express one concern about this topic:
If you already know you will autorelease the object and return it,
then you should call the autorelease at the same moment you create the
object.
NSString *str = [[[NSString alloc] init] autorelease];
If you wait until the end of your method to autorelease the object,
you are leaving a whole range of possible memoryleaks open, since
every call you make between the allocation and release is a call that
might throw an exception (and we all know Objective-C uses memoryjumps
from C).
Filip van der Meeren
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlinterpreter
On 20 Nov 2008, at 00:07, DKJ wrote:
If you've done this:
NSString *str = [NSString string];
then you can simply do this:
return str;
Whoever is getting the returned value should retain it, and then
release it when they're done.
If you'd done this instead:
NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] init];
then you should do this:
return [str autorelease];
Once again, whoever is getting the returned value should retain it,
and then release it when they're done.
In general, if you retain an object, or use a either a "copy" or an
"init..." method to obtain it, you need to release it yourself when
you're done with it.
Otherwise, you can assume that the object will dispose of itself at
some future time. But when this will happen is in practice
unpredictable, which is why you need to retain the object before
doing anything else with it.
dkj
On 19-Nov-08, at 14:37 , Carmen Cerino Jr. wrote:
I am not sure the best way to phrase this question into words, so I
will phrase it using example code.
- (NSString*)foo
{
NSString blah = [NSString string];
.........
//Now do I do:
return blah;
//Or:
return [[blah retain] autorelease]];
}
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