Could someone help me please understand how allocation and memory management is done and handled in following scenario. i am giving a Psuedo code example and question thats troubling me is inline below: interface first { NSDecimalNumber *number1; } implementation ..... -(void) dealloc { [number1 release]; [super dealloc]; } ================================= interface second { NSDecimalNumber *number2; } implementation second ..... - (First*) check { First *firstObject = [[[First alloc] init] autorelease]; number1 = [[NSDecimalNumber alloc] initWithInteger:0]; **// do i need to autorelease number1 as well?** return firstObject; }