Re: In-loop releasing of objects does not free memory?

FROM : Randall Meadows
DATE : Thu Feb 14 21:54:49 2008

On Feb 14, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

> On Feb 14, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
>

>> Just for completeness' sake, this should really be:
>>
>> NSAutoreleasePool * loopPool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>> while( whatever ) // loop
>> {
>>  // do stuff here.
>>  [loopPool drain];
>> }
>> [loopPool release];    // don't forget this.


Yes, of course, my bad.

> That'll cause a crash if GC isn't being used, since -drain is 
> documented as doing the same thing as -release in non-GC applications.


I took that to mean that has the same effect on the *contents* of the 
pool (that is, releasing everything contained in the pool) but doesn't 
release the pool itself.  Am I being too liberal in my interpretation, 
or are you talking about something else?