Re: [bugs #8498] [MinGW] NSUnarchiver crashes

[Gregory John Casamento]

Happy to report that the new patch works just fine with Gorm, gormtest, and a
few other test apps I use for regression testing.

Great work, and thanks. :)

GJC
--- Wim Oudshoorn <woudshoo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> "Richard Frith-Macdonald" <noreply@savannah.gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This mail is an automated notification from the bugs tracker
> >
> > ------------------ Additional Follow-up Comments
> > I fixed the bug in NSNumber and added a
> > simple mechanism for retaining decoded objects ... store them in an
> > NSMutableArray until the NSUnarchiver is deallocated.
> >
> 
> >From the top of my head, I am not sure if this is correct.  
> Consider the following code in  initWithCoder:
> 
> - initWithCoder: ...
> {
>         ....
>         [self dealloc];
>         self = someotherobject;
>         ....
>         return self;
> }
> 
> Arguably this is bad style, you should NOT dealloc, but just release.
> But AFAIK this works with WO4.5, and this will not work if you
> put the objects in an NS(Mutable)Array during unarchiving.
> (It will crash when the array is deallocated.)
> 
> I think there should be a solution that works better.  
> I hope my schedule allows me to investigate tuesday.
> 
> 
> Wim Oudshoorn.
>  
>        
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Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.

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