Re: sending notifications in -dealloc

[Helge Hess]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> Perhaps NSDecrementExtraRefCountWasZero() and NSIncrementExtraRefCount() 
> should simply not
> operate once the extra ref count goes to (unsigned)-1  (with the former 
> returning NO) ?

Hm, I'm unsure about that. I'll check MacOSX. Even though I don't 
remember that I have written this somewhere, I could imagine code which 
essentially does that:

- (void)dealloc {
  if ([self shouldCache]) {
    [MyCache addObject:self];
    return;
  }
  [super dealloc];
}

That is, the reference count really is raised up again and the 
deallocation is canceled. I'm aware that this is very dangerous 
(especially with subclassing) ...

I'll check MacOSX ...

Greetings
  Helge