Re: GS Extensions and retain count problem

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, December 28, 2001, at 04:17 PM, Manuel Guesdon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had some trouble with GC* objects and found that after +alloc -init, 
> their retain count seems strange.
> I've attached a small program to test this.
>
> doing a +new on  the following objects set a retainCount of 1:
> NSObject
> NSArray
> NSMutableDictionary
> GCObject
>
> But for the following, it set a retain count of 0:
> GCMutableArray
> GCArray
> GCDictionary
>
> I can't see any reason in the code.
> If you run the test app, do you get the same result (with debug=yes) ?
> If yes, is it 'normal' ?

As the 'GC' classes are garbage collecting things, I would hardly expect 
their
retain counts to make any sort of obvious sense.  You need to look at 
the GCObject source.