@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2008-2021 Jonathan Schleifer <js@nil.im>
+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2022 Jonathan Schleifer <js@nil.im>
  *
  * All rights reserved.
  *
  * This file is part of ObjFW. It may be distributed under the terms of the
  * Q Public License 1.0, which can be found in the file LICENSE.QPL included in
@@ -82,10 +82,11 @@
 	size_t length = self.UTF8StringLength;
 	char *retCString;
 	char byte = 0;
 	int state = 0;
 	size_t i = 0;
+	OFString *ret;
 
 	retCString = OFAllocMemory(length + 1, 1);
 
 	while (length--) {
 		char c = *string++;
@@ -135,14 +136,16 @@
 	} @catch (OFOutOfMemoryException *e) {
 		/* We don't care if it fails, as we only made it smaller. */
 	}
 
 	@try {
-		return [OFString stringWithUTF8StringNoCopy: retCString
-						     length: i
-					       freeWhenDone: true];
+		ret = [OFString stringWithUTF8StringNoCopy: retCString
+						    length: i
+					      freeWhenDone: true];
 	} @catch (id e) {
 		OFFreeMemory(retCString);
 		@throw e;
 	}
+
+	return ret;
 }
 @end