Question

In one of my classes I have an -(id) init method. The first thing that happens in that method is a call to [super init]

This was all fine, but I recently imported my code which was quite old into a new xcode project. I get an error on this line:

error: Automatic Reference Counting Issue: The result of a delegate init call must be immediately returned or assigned to ‘self’

Why is this error occurring? is it because this is depreciated under the ARC system? or something else?

Answer 1

How did you do it with the old system? You’re expected (on both versions) to do

self = [super init];

if (self) ...

return self;