Question

Why is my object in the following leak trace doesn’t get released?

The trace says its reference count is 0, so why doesn’t it get released?
The object is a custom class that derives directly from NSObject. all I do with it is alloc it, init it, copy some strings/numbers from it, and send release, but still its considered a leak and doesn’t get deallocated. I see it under allocations in instruments as ‘living’ so its really not deallocated. I create hundreds of these objects, so I cannot allow them to live.
How can I make this object get deallocated? why isn’t it deallocated in the first place?

Answer 1

Well, it looks like you forgot to call [super dealloc] in your -dealloc method. We’ve all done that. 🙂

So the object is getting the dealloc call as you would expect, but isn’t actually being deallocated.