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autorelease Function

Summary

Invokes the Objective-C "autorelease" method.

Package

objc

Signature

autorelease pointer => pointer

Arguments
pointer⇩
A pointer to an Objective-C foreign object.
Values
pointer
The argument pointer.
Description

The function autorelease calls the Objective-C "autorelease" instance method of pointer to register it with the current autorelease pool. The pointer is returned.

See also

release
retain
make-autorelease-pool
with-autorelease-pool

LispWorks Objective-C and Cocoa Interface User Guide and Reference Manual - 01 Dec 2021 19:38:32

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