I don't think objc has the equivalent of a null pointer exception. You can freely send messages to a deallocated object. Since ARC, it is rare, at least in my experience, running into any memory related issues with objc.
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You can send messages to null, sendings messages to a deallocated pointer is going to be a bad time.
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