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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Advanced Objective-C Memory Management

Posted by aseem hegshetye
aseem hegshetye
Courses Plus Student 1,378 Points

weak attribute in property states that the reference count is 0. soon aftr creation will property deallocate itself?

since i saw that once the ref count becomes 0 property deallocates the memory.

1 Answer

Amit Bijlani
STAFF
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Amit Bijlani
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

The property will not deallocate itself soon after creation. If there are two properties pointing to same object then the property that will still keep a reference to this object will be the one that is strong. If it is weak then it will be deallocated the same time the object it references is deallocated. This might be confusing at first but it will make more sense when you move on to the iOS development courses.