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The NSAutoreleasePool manages memory for objects that are autoreleased. In the code example, the NSArray instance returned by arrayWithObjects: is autoreleased, so it will be released when the pool is drained. When using Xcode's default main, an autorelease pool can be added before NSApplicationMain to manage autoreleased objects created beforehand.

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The NSAutoreleasePool manages memory for objects that are autoreleased. In the code example, the NSArray instance returned by arrayWithObjects: is autoreleased, so it will be released when the pool is drained. When using Xcode's default main, an autorelease pool can be added before NSApplicationMain to manage autoreleased objects created beforehand.

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Question:
------I found an example of Objective-C/cocoa framework has the following
code.
int main()
{
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc]
init];
// Create an array
NSArray *month = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@ ... nill];
[pool drain];
}

Q1 : What's the magic behind this (Why do I need to have the


NSAutoreleasePool code?)? What magic is happening between the
NSAutoreleasePool and pool drain block? I see I don't need to
release*month myself. Is this because it's inside the NSAutoreleasePool
and pool drain block?

Q2 : With Xcode, I'm already given the main() function. In this


case, how can I use the NSAutoreleasePool and pool drain?
For example :
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
//NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[[NSAutoreleasePool] alloc]
init];
return NSApplicationMain(argc, (const char **) argv);
}
Answer:
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You don't need to release the month instance in the example you
give because the NSArray class method you're calling
(arrayWithObjects:) returns an instance that is autoreleased. By
convention in Cocoa, class methods that start with the name of the
class will return autoreleased instances of that class. These
examples:
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Holla %@", @"back girl!",
nil];
[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Holla", @"back", @"girl!",
nil];
Will both return instances of their respective objects that are
autoreleased.

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