Objective C Leaking

[EVOEx]

Hello all,

I have only just started coding objective C, and I tried to code something simple: a class that stores a string and then retrieves it.

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#import <stdio.h>

@interface Person: NSObject {
  NSString *name;
}

@property (retain) NSString* name;

-(void) dealloc;

@end


@implementation Person

@synthesize name;

-(id) init
{
  if(self = [super init])
  {
    [self setName:nil];
  }
  return self;
}

-(void) dealloc
{
  printf("Calling dealloc\n");
  self.name = nil;
  [super dealloc];
}

@end



int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  Person *person = [[Person alloc] init];
  NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithCString:"Test"];
  
  person.name = str;
  NSLog(@"%@", person.name);
  
  [str release];
  [person release];
}

However, when running it it reports "autoreleased with no pool in place". Why? It seems to be in the synthesized name setter. From the tutorial I read, this should be fine - do I always need an autorelease pool if I use "@synthesize"? Where should I make it - it's probably not good to have it always in main, nor is it very useful to set up and releasing a pool every time I use a setter? [edit: I expected that the autoreleased objects would only be released after the autorelease pool is released, but maybe this is not true?]

Also, what does Objective C say about the default values of the members? Right now I set it to nil manually; do I need to, or is that standard? Also, do I need [super init] here, and do I need it if I don't need an "init" function, or does the default init function call [super init]?

Okay, maybe I should get myself an Objective C book, as the tutorials were dreadful (actually, one seemed quite good, but way too short)...

Thanks in advance