On 22 Dec 2011, at 14:03, Martin Hewitson wrote: > > On 22, Dec, 2011, at 02:39 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: > >> Did you actually write this app to be dual-mode, or are you under the >> impression that turning off garbage collection will magically fix things? > > To be honest, I wrote the app assuming garbage collection was off. I think it > must have got turned on by mistake, perhaps during the move to Xcode 4. Not > sure. > > I am under the impression (according to what others have written) that > turning off garbage collection will stop the crashes in the garbage > collection queue. I think this is a reported bug, but I didn't follow that > thread very long. I just was surprised to find garbage collection on in the > app, so I switched it off. This revealed the bug, which I'd like now to fix, > of course.
I see. Well, turning it off will certainly fix that particular crash. But it doesn't surprise me at all that an app which has had the safety net of GC for a while will have picked up some memory management errors. The static analyzer may well find a lot of them. _______________________________________________ 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
