Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError (Almost SOLVED)

>[snip]
>theSum = [NSNumber numberWithInt:sum];
>/*HERE COMES THE IMPORTANT PART:*/
>[theSum retain];
>[pool release];

This is expected behaviour because [NSNumber numberWith...] returns 
an autoreleased object. By convention most all such class methods 
return autoreleased objects. There are many similar ones like 
[NSArray arrayWith...], [NSString stringWith...] and so on.

---markus---

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