On 2010 Aug 23, at 19:02, Daniel DeCovnick wrote: > But it doesn't really matter since you should never be calling dealloc except > from release or dealloc (as [super dealloc];) anyway.
No, I haven't called -dealloc for quite a few years :) Actually, I was studying Uli Kusterer's old UKKQueue. One of his instances detaches a secondary thread with the instance itself as target, creating a kind of retain cycle: The secondary thread won't exit until the instance is deallocced, and the instance won't be deallocced until the secondary thread exits. To fix this, he overrode -release, and messages (via ivar) the secondary thread to exit when the pre-release retainCount == 2. I believe it is a pretty neat trick, but couldn't understand it until I corrected Apple's documentation of -release. Document Feedback has been submitted on -release. _______________________________________________ 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
