Re: Correct Order for CFRelease-ing CFNetwork Refs?

FROM : Michael Ash
DATE : Tue Jul 01 23:49:33 2008

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Kyle Sluder
<kyle.sluder+<email_removed>> wrote:
> There won't be any documentation regarding allocating and deallocating
> most objects, because, like Cocoa, Core Foundation religiously follows
> a memory management scheme known as the Create Rule.

...
> How did you create your auth ref?
> CFHTTPAuthenticationCreateFromResponse?  It seems that you have
> forgotten to CFRetain it (when you store it somewhere is the most
> likely place) and freeing the request is releasing the auth ref which
> is also being freed.


Since that function contains "Create", you already own it. CFRetaining
it will just require you to CFRelease it twice, which is pointless.

Mike