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Re: Memory cleanup when init fails?

On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote: 
--- Foo.m ---
@implementation
- (id) init
{
        self = [super init];
        if (self != nil)
        {
                // Fake a failure
                [self release]; // or should I call dealloc???
                return nil;
        }
        return self;
}
@end
--- End of Foo.m ---
Is the above correct form to prevent leaking?

You should first clean up anything you already did in your -init, then call [super dealloc]. [self dealloc] or [self release] are bad because they might call some subclass's -dealloc method even though the subclass's -init hasn't done anything yet.


--
Greg Parker     email@hidden     Runtime Wrangler


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