getter method for property crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS

Question

I've declared a property someProperty and synthesized it:

@synthesize someProperty = _someProperty;

But when I call it in code, I get EXC_BAD_ACCESS in my getter overide method. Why??

- (NSString *) someProperty {  <---EXC_BAD_ACCESS HERE
    if(!self.someProperty)
        return self.someOtherProperty;
    return self.someProperty;
}

Answer 1

I think you might be getting a Stack Overflow! because the line

if(!self.someProperty)

will be calling

- (NSString *) someProperty

recursively until the recursion stack overflows.

Similarly if it could get to the return line, it would do the same thing.