Question

Just upgraded xCode to 4.5. iOS 5 is still my deployment target, but Base SDK is now 6.0.

Application now crashes where previously it did not. The project uses ARC.

The offending line is a property call on a UITableView… asking for the panGestureRecognizer (line 3 below).

-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
        [super viewWillAppear:animated];    
        UIPanGestureRecognizer* pgr = [imageTableView panGestureRecognizer];
        [pgr setMinimumNumberOfTouches:2];
        [pgr setMaximumNumberOfTouches:2];
}

Produces the following error message:

-[UIScrollViewPanGestureRecognizer retain]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x1ea38f70

How is this possible? Zombie Analysis says that the gestureRecognizer has been released already?!

Answer 1

Turns out this was an ARC issue… two different solutions for those interested.

@autoreleasepool {
    UIPanGestureRecognizer* pgr = [imageTableView panGestureRecognizer];
    [pgr setMinimumNumberOfTouches:2];
    [pgr setMaximumNumberOfTouches:2];    
}

Or

[imageTableView.panGestureRecognizer setMinimumNumberOfTouches:2];
[imageTableView.panGestureRecognizer setMaximumNumberOfTouches:2];

Lesson learned, if it can’t be possible…. try ARC as the culprit.