I hadn't considered that the system might retain the bundles (but that makes a 
lot of sense).  Nevertheless, I've decided to reorganize my code a bit to 
maintain an active retain on the NSBundle objects.

Thanks for the info!

Dave

On Dec 21, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Douglas Davidson wrote:

> 
> On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:
> 
>> My question is this (and the documentation, from what I've seen, is mute on 
>> the subject):  when an NSBundle object is deallocated, is its associated 
>> code automatically unloaded, or does it stay loaded in the runtime?
> 
> For compatibility reasons, there are a number of cases in which NSBundle 
> objects will continue to be retained by the system even when you have 
> released all of your references to them, so you may not see your bundles 
> deallocated, but in any event what I would recommend is that if you have 
> loaded an NSBundle and wish to continue to use the code from it, you should 
> keep a reference to the NSBundle for as long as you continue to use it.  This 
> is definitely the case for code loaded using CFBundle--if you want to 
> continue using it, keep a reference to the CFBundle.
> 
> Douglas Davidson
> 

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