Memory leak error message from auval tool

Question

I am validating an audio unit in auval (apple's audiounitvalidationtool), it returns:

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AU VALIDATION SUCCEEDED.
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but I get a leak and I do not understand how to fix this. Can anyone be so kind and explain to me what could cause such an output and what a fix would look like?

VERIFYING CUSTOM UI objc[27641]: Object 0x7ffc12937aa0 of class __NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug Cocoa Views Available: 1

Answer 1

I suspect that you have not set up your autorelease pool correctly for your AU. For more info, check out these SO questions:

• NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking?
• "Object 0x84be00 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking" - but on the first line of the app!
• NSThread with _NSAutoreleaseNoPool error
• performSelectorInBackground gives "autoreleased with no pool in place" error