Hi all,

I'm stumped.

I'm trying to get a list of all the email address a person has. I'm using the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController to select the person, which all seems fine. I'm setting my

ABRecordRef personDealingWith;

from the person argument to

- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person property:(ABPropertyID)property identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifier {

and everything seems fine up till this point. The first time the following code executes, all is well. When subsequently run, I can get issues. First, the code:

// following line seems to make the difference (issue 1)
// NSLog(@"%d", ABMultiValueGetCount(ABRecordCopyValue(personDealingWith, kABPersonEmailProperty)));

// construct array of emails ABMultiValueRef multi = ABRecordCopyValue(personDealingWith, kABPersonEmailProperty); CFIndex emailCount = ABMultiValueGetCount(multi);

if (emailCount > 0) { // collect all emails in array for (CFIndex i = 0; i < emailCount; i++) { CFStringRef emailRef = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(multi, i); [emailArray addObject:(NSString *)emailRef]; CFRelease(emailRef); } }

// following line also matters (issue 2)

CFRelease(multi);

If compiled as written, the are no errors or static analysis problems. This crashes with a

*** -[Not A Type retain]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x4e9dc60

error.

But wait, there's more! I can fix it in either of two ways.

Firstly, I can uncomment the NSLog at the top of the function. I get a leak from the NSLog's ABRecordCopyValue every time through, but the code seems to run fine.

Also, I can comment out the

CFRelease(multi);

at the end, which does exactly the same thing. Static compilation errors, but running code.

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So without a leak, this function crashes. To prevent a crash, I need to haemorrhage memory. Neither is a great solution.

Can anyone point out what's going on?