I have a situation in my code, where I cannot clean up my classes objects without first calling [super dealloc]. It is something like this:

// Baseclass.m
@implmentation Baseclass

...

-(void) dealloc
{
    [self _removeAllData];
    [aVariableThatBelongsToMe release];
    [anotherVariableThatBelongsToMe release];
    [super dealloc];
}

...

@end

This works great. My problem is, when I went to subclass this huge and nasty class (over 2000 lines of gross code), I ran into a problem: when I released my objects before calling [super dealloc] I had zombies running through the code that were activated when I called the [self _removeAllData] method.

// Subclass.m
@implementation Subclass

...

-(void) deallloc
{
    [super dealloc];

    [someObjectUsedInTheRemoveAllDataMethod release];
}     

...

@end

This works great, and It didn't require me to refactor any code. My question Is this: Is it safe for me to do this, or should I refactor my code? Or maybe autorelease the objects?

I am programming for iPhone if that matters any.