Introduction

Explains how to allocate and deallocate objects in Core Foundation.

Organization of This Document

The following concepts and tasks discuss the built in support Core Foundation provides for managing the memory allocation and deallocation of objects:

Ownership Policy
Core Foundation Object Lifecycle Management
Copy Functions
Allocators

If you need to customize your allocators then read:

Using Allocators in Creation Functions
Using the Allocator Context
Creating Custom Allocators

To find out more about byte ordering and swapping see:

Byte Ordering
Byte Swapping

Introduction

Organization of This Document

See Also