Question

I am adding a nil object to autorelease pool. But it is not crashing the application. Why?? Any one can give an explanation for this please? The code I tested given below,

    UIView *testView = nil;
    [testView autorelease];

Thanks,
Augustine P A

Answer 1

Sending any message to nil always results in nothing happening. No autorelease method gets called — the message dispatch mechanism stops immediately when the receiver is nil.