Do you know what happens if I retain an autoreleased object ?
Will it be released or does the retain wins ?
Do you know what happens if I retain an autoreleased object ? Will it
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Do you know what happens if I retain an autoreleased object ?
Will it be released or does the retain wins ?
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retain“wins” but thinking of it that way is full of fail.retain and release are merely mechanisms via which you increase or decrease the retain count of an object. Autorelease is simply a delayed release; no more, no less.
If you retain an autoreleased object you are increasing the retain count NOW while the retain count will be decreased LATER. This happens all the time;
[NSString stringWithFormat: @"...."]returns an autoreleased string that youretainif you want it to stick around beyond [most typically] the current pass through the event loop.