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nickthedude
nickthedude

Reputation: 4973

any difference between these two dealloc methods?

So i'm overriding dealloc method because the object is a composite object made up of one other object.

I originally had this dealloc method:

-(id) dealloc; // Override to release the Rectangle object’s memory 
{
    [rect release];
    [super dealloc];
    return self;
}

After looking in the book I saw another answer:

{
   [rect release];
   return [super dealloc];
}

just wondering if both work equally.

Thanks,

Nick

Upvotes: 3

Views: 348

Answers (2)

Laurent Etiemble
Laurent Etiemble

Reputation: 27929

I have just checked the NSObject reference: dealloc has not return type. So, I think it is incorrect to define such a signature. Thus, call to dealloc should not expect a return value.

Unless you are not subclassing NSObject...

Upvotes: 0

Dave DeLong
Dave DeLong

Reputation: 243156

They're both wrong. dealloc returns void, not id:

- (void) dealloc {
  [rect release];
  [super dealloc];
}

Upvotes: 10

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