[iphone] Is there a class teardown counterpart to +initialize?

Question

I'm sure it is wishful thinking, but is there a counterpart to +initialize that will automatically get called when all instances of a class have been dealloc'ed?

I allocate a singleton object in +initialize, which is called before my first class instance gets alloc'ed. I would love to be able to release the object once my class instances have all been deallocated. However, if my objects of my class ever get reallocated, then I would need +initialize to get called again. I suspect Cocoa doesn't do that level of class management and it is probably up to me to wrap my class in a class manager class...

Am I correct?

Answer 1

There isn't.

I recommend just not removing a singleton, there's almost no point because it's just one object, which isn't going to take a lot of space.

If you really need this behavior, just override +alloc and +dealloc to count the current instances. (or +finalize in a garbage collected environment).