Re: Allocating memory in Cocoa

FROM : Charlton Wilbur
DATE : Sat Dec 25 19:42:22 2004

On Dec 25, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> What is the right way of allocating memory in Cocoa?


Well, the simplest way is to use +alloc and -init.  What problem are
you trying to solve that those can't handle?

> I'm using this code at the moment.
>
> // allocate 100000 bytes for memory1_ptr
>    if((memory1_ptr = malloc(100000)) == NULL)
>        {
>            printf("malloc memory1_ptr failed\n");
>        }


That will allocate memory, but it doesn't fit the general Cocoa and
Objective-C idioms.  My inclination would be to call that the *wrong*
way of going about it, but there are reasons you might want to do it. 
Without knowing why you're allocating memory, or what problem you have
that +alloc/-init don't solve, I can't comment on whether that approach
is actually the right thing to do.

Charlton


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