If I have an object created as autoreleased, is there a way that I can mark it is essentially “not autoreleased”?
I feel that I have heard calling [object retain] will do what I am looking for but I am not sure.
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If I have an object created as autoreleased, is there a way that I can mark it is essentially “not autoreleased”?
I feel that I have heard calling [object retain] will do what I am looking for but I am not sure.
Depending on what you really want [object retain] will do it…or nothing will.
If what you want is “my object should live past the drain of the autorelease pool”, then [object retain] will do that for you. It will make the object live until you have a matching number of [object releases]s (or [object autorelease]s + pool drains).
If you want the object to not make the autorelease pool bigger, not to make the pool drain fractionally slower, or to make sure to object dies BEFORE the next pool drain, then [object retain] will not do it. In fact the only real way to do any of those things is to make sure the object never goes into the autorelease pool (or to a lesser extent, make a private autorelease pool and manage its lifecycle).