Re: How to delay application quit?

FROM : j o a r
DATE : Tue Mar 25 23:26:15 2008

On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:19 PM, James Hober wrote:

> On the other hand, the documentation for dealloc says:
>
> "Note that when an application terminates, objects may not be sent a 
> dealloc message since the process’s memory is automatically cleared 
> on exit—it is more efficient simply to allow the operating system to 
> clean up resources than to invoke all the memory management methods."
>
> Since it says "may," theoretically it could be considered an 
> implementation detail that dealloc is not called during termination 
> and Apple could change things in a future release.  Admittedly, this 
> is not very likely and admittedly worrying about code that almost 
> certainly will never execute is probably not the best use of time. 
> And yet it is very common to have a number of singleton objects of 
> this kind in Cocoa apps.  So nearly all of us are "solving" this one 
> way or another.



That's a valid argument, but I feel pretty confident that Apple 
wouldn't be able to make such a chance for existing binaries without 
creating havoc in the installed application base.

If they do change this, I would expect them to communicate it first, 
and then only actually update the behaviour for apps compiled on a 
newer version of the OS.

j o a r