Understanding reference counting with Cocoa and Objective-C

Question

I\'m just beginning to have a look at Objective-C and Cocoa with a view to playing with the iPhone SDK. I\'m reasonably comfortable with C\'s malloc and f

Answer 1

As ever, when people start trying to re-word the reference material they almost invariably get something wrong or provide an incomplete description.

Apple provides a complete description of Cocoa's memory management system in Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa, at the end of which there is a brief but accurate summary of the Memory Management Rules.