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24.02 The Road to Code: There's a Hole in Your Bucket

by Dave Dribin
Feb, 2008 Issue

Article Synopsis

Welcome back to The Road to Code. In previous articles, we've talked about dynamic memory management and how to use malloc and free in C. We've also covered using alloc and release in Objective-C. Unfortunately, I left out a lot of the details of Objective-C memory management, mentioning only that alloc and release worked the same as malloc and free. This was a white lie, and the truth is that they are a bit more complicated. While the complications are a bit of a hurdle to overcome, they paradoxically make it easier on the programmer, in the long run.

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