Question

If I’m not using garbage collection and I have a auto property set as retain. Should I release the object in my dealloc or does the generated code handle that for me.

More clearly, will the following code leak memory if I don’t release name in dealloc.

Person.h

@interface Person : NSObject {
}
@property (retain) NSString* name;
@end

Person.m

#import "Person.h"

@implementation Person
@synthesize name;
@end

Answer 1

The retain/assign/copy attributes of a @property only affects how they would behave in the getter and setter. You do need to manually -release the ivar in -dealloc.