Have you tried reordering it into something like if (!self) return nil; if (!do_stuff_successfully) { [self release]; return nil; } ...
That's our house style and I've never seen an error like yours. ________________________________________ From: cocoa-dev-bounces+lrucker=vmware....@lists.apple.com [cocoa-dev-bounces+lrucker=vmware....@lists.apple.com] on behalf of Bill Cheeseman [wjcheese...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 8:11 AM To: Cocoa-Dev Cocoa-Dev Mail Subject: Impossible leak warning in OS X init method The following initialization code has generated a leak warning in Xcode 4, 5, 6 and 7 beta in a framework of mine for several years. It has never caused an issue in the wild. I would really like to get rid of the warning. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? @implementation MyObject // subclass of NSObject - (id)initWithSomeThing:(id)someThing { self = [super init]; if (self) { if (do_stuff_successfully) { ... } else { [self release]; return nil; // <-- Error (quoted below) } } return self; } - (MyObject *)objectWithThing:(id)thisThing { if (thisThing) { MyObject *object = [[MyObject alloc] initWithSomething:thisThing]; return [object autorelease]; } return nil; } @end Error: "Object leaked: object allocated and stored into 'self' is not referenced later in this execution path and has a retain count of +1" -- Bill Cheeseman - wjcheese...@comcast.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/lrucker%40vmware.com This email sent to lruc...@vmware.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com