Pop to root view controller without animation crash for the table view

Question

I have 3 view controller in a tab bar controller. Clicking on any tab loads its root view controller in the navigation stack.

e.g. tab1, tab2, and tab3.
The 2nd vi

Answer 1

Jesse's answer works perfect. I just made a slight modification for ARC Support

- (void)dealloc 
{
  self.tableView.delegate = nil;
  self.tableView.dataSource = nil;
}