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Andrey Chenchik
6,823 PointsHow compiler can understand how much memory we need to allocate before we will tell him what type we have in mind?
And how much memory will be allocated anyway?
3 Answers
James Tink
11,210 PointsYou are telling the compiler which type you have in mind when you allocate:
[NSString alloc]
Asks the NSString class to allocate enough memory to store an NSString object.
The class knows how much memory is needed based on the size of each of its members. The size of primitive type members is built in to the compiler. Any non-primitive type is just a composition of primitive types, so the compiler figures out the size of non-primitive types based on how many primitive types it has as members.
Michael Bowen
770 PointsYou are giving a type though when you declare the object....such as NSString *name tells it that it is an NSString object.
Almas Adilbek
4,416 PointsI think, you don't even should understand it yourself. Just write code like conventions say.
Andrey Chenchik
6,823 PointsI believe that I don't need for programming, but it will be good to know for better understanding.