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Dollarslice
Dollarslice

Reputation: 10314

super init no longer works

In one of my classes I have an -(id) init method. The first thing that happens in that method is a call to [super init]

This was all fine, but I recently imported my code which was quite old into a new xcode project. I get an error on this line:

error: Automatic Reference Counting Issue: The result of a delegate init call must be immediately returned or assigned to 'self'

Why is this error occurring? is it because this is depreciated under the ARC system? or something else?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1531

Answers (3)

Nagarjun
Nagarjun

Reputation: 6877

This worked out to me:

need assign some thing in self.

-(id) init {
   self = [super init];
   return self;
}

Upvotes: 0

Pascal
Pascal

Reputation: 16941

It worked before for you because LLVM is much more strict than GCC was before. GCC didn't detect the error and as @vakio pointed out in his comment, it worked because somewhere up in the chain, self = [super init] was present. LLVM detects this error during compile time and prevents you from compiling the incorrect code.

Upvotes: 1

ott--
ott--

Reputation: 5722

How did you do it with the old system? You're expected (on both versions) to do

self = [super init];

if (self) ...

return self;

Upvotes: 3

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