Re: Allocating memory in Cocoa

FROM : Finlay Dobbie
DATE : Sat Dec 25 23:43:38 2004

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:08:57 -0600, Prachi Gauriar <<email_removed>> wrote:
> There's also void NSZoneMalloc
>        void *NSZoneMalloc(NSZone *zone, unsigned int size)
>
> It's like malloc, but allocates from the specified zone, which seems
> more appropriate for objects allocated/copied using
> +allocWithZone:/copyWithZone:.  There's also NSZoneCalloc, NSZoneFree,
> and NSZoneRealloc.


As of 10.2 or thereabouts, NSZone is bridged with malloc_zone_t, see
<malloc/malloc.h>. malloc uses the same implementation.

-- Finlay