Re: Downloading image from web and memory usage questions

FROM : Shawn Erickson
DATE : Sun Jan 26 08:56:01 2003

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 01:34  PM, James J. Merkel wrote:
> On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 12:38  PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

>> I believe the NSLog that is printing out a retain count of zero is
>> before the image has been alloced and initialized (the image pointer
>> is still set to nil). In other words he is sending a retainCount
>> message to a nil object, this is not a hard error but the return
>> value is undefined in this case.

>
> Ok. However, it looks like I have to explicitly set the object to nil.
> For example, if I do the following before allocate and initialize:
>
> myObject = nil;
> NSLog(@"Retain count = %d\n" , [myObject retainCount] );
>
> The retain count of 0 is printed out. However if I don't set myObject
> to nil, I get a crash.


Didn't look at the code closely...

FYI... vars in methods are not auto initialized to zero, ivars in
objects are.