I am trying to analyze some code of mine, looking for memory leaks. My problem is that some of my objects are leaking (at least as far as I can see), but the Leaks tool doesn't detect the leaks. My guess is that some iPhone OS object still holds pointers to my leaked objects.

The objects I am talking about are subclasses of UIViewController that I use like this:

MyController *controller = [[MyController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyController"  
                                                          bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:YES];

When these objects are no longer needed I do:

[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

Without a [controller release] call right now.

Now when I look at what objects that gets created I see a lot of MyController instances that never gets destroyed. To me these are memory leaks, but to the Leaks tool they are not.

Can someone here tell me if there is some way Instruments can tell me what objects are pointing to my MyController instances and thereby making them not count as memory leaks?