Is an Objective-C object, e.g., NSString, placed on the stack or the heap?
Is an Objective-C object, e.g., NSString , placed on the stack or the heap?
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Is an Objective-C object, e.g., NSString, placed on the stack or the heap?
The pointee of an Objective-C object is stored on the heap. But there are two exceptions: constant strings like
@"foo"and block literals are stored in the__DATAsegment (for global variables).Normally none of ObjC objects will be stored on the stack.