ObjectAlloc instrument is your friend. Configure it to record retains and releases. Much more accurate, much easier to understand what's going on.
On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Gary L. Wade <garyw...@desisoftsystems.com> wrote: > On 04/27/2010 2:12 PM, "Bill Bumgarner" <b...@mac.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote: >> >>> On 04/27/2010 1:58 PM, "Bill Bumgarner" <b...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Frankly, the -retainCount method should be deprecated and, eventually, >>>> removed. >>> >>> I wouldn't go THAT far; after all, when you're tracking a memory leak, >>> checking your influence on the retain count is important to your >>> investigation. Hopefully that's why the original poster is looking at it. >> >> The combination of leaks, zombies, heap, and malloc stack logging are much >> *much* more powerful and effective than trying to debug a leak, over-retain >> or >> under-retain with -retainCount. >> >> b.bum >> > > Yes, but how would you use those to determine why an Apple framework now > chooses to retain a delegate (I'm referring to one particular one I > discovered), thereby causing a retain cycle? It's not a memory leak in the > sense that Instruments or leaks would ever catch it. Calling -retainCount > immediately before and after the -setDelegate call is pretty much the only > way. > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/jjalon%40gmail.com > > This email sent to jja...@gmail.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
