RE: Dealloc Notification

[Gerrit Van Dyk]

Helge wrote:

>I have two issues with that:
>a) compatibility (I consider that very critical !!)

This whole discussion started with incompatibilities. Currently your EO
object must inherit of GCObject or implement the GC interface, which is not
at all compatible with the 1.1 EOF spec. I have an object that gets
allocated from the DB, it then gets autoreleased because it is not needed
anymore. After a while the object needs to be retrieved again and then a
reference to the old object is returned from EOF, this reference is not
valid anymore as it was released previously. I cannot change the object to a
GCObject as this means that I need to change quite a lot of objects and it
will not compile under openstep anymore. Yes I could create a GCObject under
openstep that just inherits of NSObject, but is this correct?

Regards
Gerrit van Dyk
 
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