Is it safe to create an UObject and passing it to a method before it's being assigned to an UPROPERTY pointer?

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Hi!

When are the UObjects collected by the garbage collector. Is it safe to create an UObject and passing it to a method before it’s being assigned to an UPROPERTY pointer or must you directly assign it to an UPROPERTY pointer?

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if all that happens in less then 1 second it should be ok, GC is cleaning every 60 sec if i’m not mistaken

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Sounds a bit dangerous since with wrong timing that would probably destroy almost any game. I really hope they don’t run the GC during the ticking phase but it seems like this knowledge is rare. I can’t take such risks for production code.