IPhone Dev - Question about autorelease and whether what I'm doing is safe?

The autorelease pool isn't drained until the next pass of the event loop of the thread it serves. That's not going to happen as long as you're working inside your current method. So yes, array is safe for someMethodThatTakesAnArray: to use; you needn't worry.

Before your method returns, there's no opportunity for the autorelease pool to get drained. What you're doing here is fine, if you have no other need for this array than to pass it off to -someMethodThatTakesAnArray.

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