Download Garbage Collection Programming Guide (Retired

Using Garbage Collection 25
Cycles 25
Weak and Zeroing Weak References 25
Managing Opaque Pointers 25
Global Object Pointers 28
Interior Pointers 29
Compiler Flag 31
Implementing a finalize Method 32
Design Patterns 32
Efficiency 32
Messaging Other Objects 33
Avoiding Resurrection 33
Managing an External Resource 34
Inapplicable Patterns 36
Reference counting 36
dealloc 36
Enumerations 37
Resource wrapper objects 37
Leaked but not lost objects 38
Delegate references 38
Memory zones 38
Using Core Foundation with Garbage Collection 39
Allocation 39
Memory Management Semantics 39
Core Foundation Variables 42
Instance variables 42
Local Variables 43
Core Foundation Collection Semantics 44
Garbage Collection API 46
Foundation 46
NSObject 46
NSAutoreleasePool 46
NSGarbageCollector 47
Collection Classes 47
NSValue 47
NSThread 47
Retired Document | 2012-07-23 | Copyright © 2012 Apple Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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