On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Dave Carrigan wrote:

> On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Dave DeLong wrote:
>> *Unless the documentation says otherwise.  Consider, for example, +[NSData 
>> dataWithBytesNoCopy:...].
> 
> 
> True, although that particular method is taking ownership of a buffer, not of 
> an object. I would be curious if there are any APIs that actually take 
> ownership of an object from you, but I bet that they're very rare.
> 


Rare enough that someone commented it in our code and I knew exactly where to 
look to find it (though it's CF, not Cocoa):

// IOServiceGetMatchingService: _Always_ calls CFRelease() once on all non-NULL 
references.

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