Two Objective-C Memory Management Questions: Is Leak Detection Always Right? and Why does autorelease work but not release?

The problem with your second block is that no code is run after return. I would have expected Xcode to warn you about that (look at and try to fix your warnings, as well as errors).

For the first part of your question, the answer is based on when autorelease actually releases the object.

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