On 9/6/08 7:51 PM, Clark Cox said:

>The original works with both GC and non-GC, while the version with
>autorelease will leak under GC (because the string is never
>CFRelease'd). In order to work with both runtimes, either use the
>original, or do this:
>
>- (NSString *)uuid
>{
>     CFUUIDRef uuidRef = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
>     CFStringRef uuidStringRef = CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, uuidRef);
>     CFRelease(uuidRef);
>     return [NSMakeCollectable(uuidStringRef) autorelease];
>}

One last correction: CFUUIDCreate() may return null, and one can't pass
null to CFRelease().  So an "if (uuidRef)" is needed.  (You can pass
null to NSMakeCollectable, but not to CFMakeCollectable).

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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