Thanks, everybody. Of course, you're all absolutely right, the buffer from decodeBytesForKey is temporary. I'd just assumed the bytes would be written to my malloced buffer, not realizing I needed to explicitly copy them. Problem solved.
cheers, J. On 2010-08-02, at 10:56 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 03/08/2010, at 3:46 AM, James Maxwell wrote: > >> continuations = (float*)[aDecoder >> decodeBytesForKey:@"continuations" returnedLength:&size]; > > > I expect the returned bytes are autoreleased. The docs don't state this > explicitly, but the similar method -decodeBytesWithReturnedLength: states "If > you need the bytes beyond the scope of the current autorelease pool, you must > copy them.". > > Try it and see if it solves the issue, sounds like a straightforward memory > bug. > > --Graham > James B Maxwell Composer/Doctoral Student School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) School for Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT) Simon Fraser University jbmaxw...@rubato-music.com jbmax...@sfu.ca _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
