Does NSAutorelease need to be the first line in main?

Question

Just curious does NSAutoreleasePool need to be right at the top of main, or can you declare variables before it?

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {

    int myNumber;
    int myOtherNumber;

    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

    [pool drain];
    return 0;
}

cheers -gary-

Answer 1

You can create the pool at anytime, you just don't want to declare Autorelease variables before you declare the pool.

Answer 2

Unless you are not allocating any Objective-C objects (and autoreleasing them) you should be fine. I don't know why you want to do this?