I release a "regular" instance variable in my managed object's - didTurnIntoFault, and discovered that this was causing a crash sometime after an undo. In searching code on the internet I see that others have reported such crashes. I solved the problem by setting the instance variable to nil:

- (void)didTurnIntoFault {
    [childrenTemp release] ; childrenTemp = nil ;
        
    [super didTurnIntoFault] ;
}

Now I understand that if nilling an instance variable after releasing it is done in -dealloc, it is papering over other memory management problems and is therefore bad programming practice. But I believe that this practice is OK in -didTurnIntoFault because, particularly when Undo is involved, -didTurnIntoFault may be invoked more than once on an object. Therefore nilling after releasing in -didTurnIntoFault is recommended.

Does anyone disagree?

Sincerely,

Jerry Krinock


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