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Objective C alloc/release error

When I try the code below it crashes with BAD_ACCESS if I release newString. What am I missing here?

As far as I know, when I use “copy” as an accessor I got the ownership of the object, so even should I release the other referencing pointer, retain count should still stay 1+, so that object should still be in memory?

P.S. This is a singleton class if it makes a difference.

.h file

NSString *originalString;
@property (nonatomic,copy) NSString *originalString;

.m file

@synthesize originalString;
...
NSString *newString = [[NSString alloc] init...];
self.originalString = newString;
[newString release];  //this lines makes it crash

I’ve also tried

self.originalString = [newString copy];

with no luck..

Answer 1

Have you tried just adding autorelease to your *newString init? Then just take out the manual release all together.

NSString *newString = [[NSString alloc] init...] autorelease];