On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Bill Bumgarner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:49 PM, Franck Zoccolo wrote:
>
> > You said that you're using garbage collection. When using GC retain and
> > release messages do nothing, and the retain count is not used to
> > determine when an objet can be freed from memory.
>
> If -retainCount is returning 1, then he can't be using GC. Under GC,
> -retainCount -- being the utterly useless method that it is that no one
> should ever call -- returns self.
>
> b.bum
Wait, what? I could understand that under GC -retain might be nothing more
than the equivalent of "- (id)retain { return(self); }", but -retainCount?
Is it really "- (NSUInteger)retainCount { return((NSUInteger)self); }" ?
Wouldn't it make more sense to just return 1, or maybe something like
NSUIntegerMax?
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