Release object after return?

Say I have an object initialized right before a method's return statement...

MyObj* myObj = [[MyObj alloc] initWithOpt1:opt1 withOpt2:opt2];
return myObj;

Is it possible 开发者_Go百科to release it after the return statement? Doing so before defeats the purpose of init'ing it to begin with, right? Otherwise, what's the best way to handle this?

Autorelease was created precisely to solve this problem.

MyObj* myObj = [[MyObj alloc] initWithOpt1:opt1 withOpt2:opt2];
return [myObj autorelease];

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmAutoreleasePools.html

Just do

return [myObj autorelease];

that's it!

While

return [myObj autorelease];

works it is better coding educate to simply

return myObj;

and then when you create the object do it with an autorelease on it.

MyObj *my_obj = [[[MyObj alloc] initWithOpt1:opt1 withOpt2:op2] autorelease];

and the reason for this is because autorelease is saying that when this function is over I want to release this object. So using

return [myObj autorelease]; 

is not the only way.