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Autoforget Pool? - bmantzey - Sep 21, 2012 01:36 PM
I'm not sure what's going on here. The autorelease pool doesn't seem to be doing anything in this case. I see it works most of the time, but I've noticed that it does nothing at other times.
I'm troubleshooting a memory leak. In instruments, for the object I'm troubleshooting, the count looks like this:
0: Malloc 1
1: Autorelease
2: Retain 2
3: Retain 3
4: Release 2
... there are several more lines in the object's life, but none of them are a drain.
It just so happens that the object is created and autorelease is called on it inside the delegate method of UITableViewDelegate -
Code:
(UITableViewCell*) tableView:(UITableView*)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPathAmong a bunch of other stuff not related to the lifecycle of this cell, this appears to be the significant code:
Code:
FolderListCellView *cell = (FolderListCellView*)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[[FolderListCellView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier] autorelease];where FolderListCellView inherits from UITableViewCell
The question I have is, why does the autorelease pool never drain this autorelease object? I don't understand why a blank appears by the autorelease call and the object never receives the release. I hope someone can help. Thanks.
RE: Autoforget Pool? - SethWillits - Sep 21, 2012 06:02 PM
Because it's being retained by the table view in its reuse queue.
You did your part correctly. What you showed is not the source of any leak.