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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 277

alloc and init in Objective-C

I'm assuming the definition of alloc goes along the lines of:

Locates and allocates a block of memory for an object

And the definition init goes something like:

Creates an object in the newly allocated memory block

I'm just trying to wrap my head around more regarding memory management and want to make sure that I'm getting this right..

Upvotes: 1

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Hermann Klecker
Hermann Klecker

Reputation: 14068

That is sort of right.

It is right in principle. But init is actually not required to return the same, indentical, object. I never observed this (well, frankly, never checked for it either) but theoretically init may release the allocated object, allocate another one, initialize the second and return a refernce to the second one. Besides that detail you are totally right.

Upvotes: 1

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