On Apr 17, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Paul Sanders wrote: > > That is, retain counts are stored outside of the instance. > In that case there is a danger that a pointer to whatever is referenced would > be transferred to the copy of the object, which is not what you want.
No, you misunderstand. There is (in the scheme I'm vaguely recalling) _nothing_ inside the instances which holds or points to something which holds the retain count. There is another data structure entirely which maps from object addresses to a retain count. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ 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
