Objective-C “message sent to deallocated instance 0x5633b0”

Question

I appear to have some overzealous releasing going on in my obj-C app - getting error message

\"-[myobj release]: message sent to deallocated instance

Answer 1

What worked best for me when I ran into similar problems recently was the following:

1. Under under Project->Edit Active Executable -> Arguments tab -> Environment variables section I added and set to YES the following variables: NSAutoreleaseFreedObjectCheckEnabled, NSZombieEnabled and NSDebugEnabled.

2. Under the Run menu, I selected Enable Guard Malloc.

With these settings the debugger provided more hints on what's wrong with my code.

(I found these tips here)

Good luck, Ori