Re: Notifications sent in -(void)dealloc

[Adam Fedor]

Marcus Müller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just stumbled across some interesting problem. If you post a 
> notification in one object's dealloc and send 'self' as the object of 
> the notification, it later on crashes during an AutoreleasePool's 
> release method (although the object gets retained by the notification, 
> so its deallocation should be cancelled). It doesn't crash on Mac OS X, 
> however.
> A testcase for this problem (GNUstep and OS X project) can be found at
>
> http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/~znek/GNUstep/Notifications.tar.bz2


Funny. Richard fixed this, or at least it says that he fixed this in the 
ChangeLog (Jun 2 2002). But it doesn't appear the code was actually 
changed. Bummer that he's out of town now...


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