When to use -retainCount?

Question

I would like to know in what situation did you use -retainCount so far, and eventually the problems that can happen using it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Take a look at the Apple documentation on NSObject, it pretty much covers your question: NSObject retainCount

In short, retainCount is probably useless to you unless you've implemented your own reference counting system (and I can almost guarantee you won't have).

In Apple's own words, retainCount is "typically of no value in debugging memory management issues".