alloc + init with synthesized property - does it cause retain count to increase by two?

Question

I\'ve seeen the following snippet quite a bit:

In the header:

SomeClass *bla;
@property(nonatomic,retain) SomeClass *bla;

In the implem

Answer 1

There is no double count. The setter created by by synthesize does a release before doing a retain. See Stanford class on objective c class 3 as referenced on the apple website. It is also worth noting that in case of iboutlets the alloc init is not needed as it is performed through loading of the xib file