Why are subviews of an NSView not sent a release message when a Cocoa application terminates?

Question

The short version:

1. Why are the subviews of NSView objects not sent a release message when a Cocoa application terminates?
2. I

Answer 1

In the code you presented you are adding the subview to an ivar called 'view'. Is that what you really did or is it just from copying code to the question?

I ask this because if I create an IBOutlet to the main window's content view and run your code it does what you say. But if I add the myView local var to parentView then it does deallocate:

begin
init 
init 
run
quit
dealloc 
end
dealloc  

In addition it appears that sub views get autoreleased (adding a log message to autorelease proves it).