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malloc(), Garbage Collection

memory, Creating an Object–Writing creation methods, Memory Management–Garbage Collection, Manual Memory Management, Reference Counting–Retain cycles, Garbage Collection

allocating, Creating an Object–Writing creation methods

managing, Memory Management–Garbage Collection, Manual Memory Management, Reference Counting–Retain cycles, Garbage Collection

garbage collection, Garbage Collection

manually, Manual Memory Management

reference counting, Reference Counting–Retain cycles

messages, Dynamic Dispatch, Message search paths, Message search paths, Special receivers, Special receivers, Type qualifiers, Remote Messaging–Object Qualifiers, Sending messages, Sending messages, Forwarding Messages–NSObject Forwarding

(see also receivers)

forwarding, Message search paths, Forwarding Messages–NSObject Forwarding

remote, Type qualifiers, Remote Messaging–Object Qualifiers

search paths for, Message search paths

sending, Dynamic Dispatch, Special receivers, Sending messages, Sending messages

dynamically, Dynamic Dispatch

methods for, Sending messages, Sending messages

to nil, Special receivers

-metaClass method, Identifying objects and classes

metaclass objects, Metaclass Objects–Metaclass Objects

MetaClass type, Types

method calls, Calling a method, Message search paths, Special receivers, Object Qualifiers, Object Forwarding–NSObject Forwarding, Optimizing Method Calls–Optimizing Method Calls

chaining together, Special receivers

message search paths and, Message search paths

object forwarding and, Object Forwarding–NSObject Forwarding

object qualifiers and, Object Qualifiers

optimizing, Optimizing Method Calls–Optimizing Method Calls

-methodFor: method, Information about methods, Optimizing Method Calls

-methodForSelector: method, Information about methods, Optimizing Method Calls

methods, Objects, Inheritance and Subtyping, Inheritance and Subtyping, Methods–Selectors, Declaring a method–A variable number of parameters, No parameters, One parameter, More than one parameter, A variable number of parameters, Implementing a method, Naming collisions, Naming collisions, Private methods, Accessors, Special receivers–Special receivers, Selectors

accessors, Accessors

declaring, Declaring a method–A variable number of parameters, No parameters, One parameter, More than one parameter, A variable number of parameters, Private methods

with available number of parameters, A variable number of parameters

in implementation files, Private methods

with more than one parameter, More than one parameter

with no parameters, No parameters

with one parameter, One parameter

implementing, Implementing a method

naming collisions, Naming collisions

overloading not allowed, Inheritance and Subtyping, Naming collisions

overriding, Inheritance and Subtyping

selectors, Selectors

special receivers, Special receivers–Special receivers

-methodSignatureForSelector: method, Information about methods, NSObject Forwarding

NSObject forwarding, NSObject Forwarding

mutable objects, Writing copy methods–Writing copy methods

-mutableCopy method, Creating, copying, and freeing objects

-mutableCopyWithZone: method, Writing copy methods, Creating, copying, and freeing objects