Is it safe for auto-update objects inside NSOperation?

Question

I run operations like NSInvocationOperation in NSOperationQueue and wonder if this is safe for auto-update objects. That is, if it is guaranteed that the thread running for each operation has its own autostart pool.

I did not find any documentation auto-detection pools for operations. Reading Apple documents actually suggests that I need to define my own auto resource pool.

However: 1) I do not see any leaks in the tools, at least not more than when I allocate my own autodetection pool in the operation.

2) looking in the debugger, I see this stack trace:

#0  0x00fc3e82 in -[NSObject(NSObject) release] ()
#1  0x00faaa6c in CFRelease ()
#2  0x00fbf804 in __CFBasicHashDrain ()
#3  0x00faabcb in _CFRelease ()
#4  0x00fcfb8d in _CFAutoreleasePoolPop ()
#5  0x000edd0d in -[__NSOperationInternal start] ()
#6  0x000ed826 in ____startOperations_block_invoke_2 ()
#7  0x94358024 in _dispatch_call_block_and_release ()
#8  0x9434a2f2 in _dispatch_worker_thread2 ()
#9  0x94349d81 in _pthread_wqthread ()
#10 0x94349bc6 in start_wqthread ()

, , CFAutoreleasePool. , , ?

Answer 1

, NSInvocationOperation :

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface MyClass : NSObject
@end

@implementation MyClass
- (void)performSomeTask:(id)data
{
    NSString *s = [[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"hey %@", data]
        autorelease];
    if ([[NSThread currentThread] isMainThread])
        NSLog(@"performSomeTask on the main thread!");
    else
        NSLog(@"performSomeTask NOT on the main thread!");

    NSLog(@"-- %@", s);
}
@end

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  MyClass *c = [MyClass new];

  if (argc == 2 && strcmp(argv[1], "nop") == 0)
      [c performSomeTask:@"ho"];
  else {
      NSInvocationOperation *op = [[NSInvocationOperation alloc]
          initWithTarget:c
                selector:@selector(performSomeTask:)
                  object:@"howdy"];
      NSOperationQueue *queue  = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
      [queue addOperation:op];
      [op waitUntilFinished];

      [op release];
      [queue release];
  }

  [c release];

  return 0;
}

: "nop" , -performSomeTask: , , . :

$ ./c nop
*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10010cca0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
performSomeTask on the main thread!
-- hey ho

-performSomeTask: .

"nop" -performSomeTask: NSInvocationOperation . :

$ ./c
*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100105ec0 of class NSInvocation autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100111300 of class NSCFSet autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100111b60 of class NSCFSet autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100105660 of class NSCFSet autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
performSomeTask NOT on the main thread!
-- hey howdy

, NSInvocation NSSet, , -performSomeTask: , .

, , NSInvocationOperation (, , NSOperation Apple) , Concurrency NSOperation.