Re: Is +[NSMutableArray initialize] completely implemented?

[Philip Mötteli]

Hi


Am 22.02.2004 um 11:02 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
> On 22 Feb 2004, at 09:30, Philip Mötteli wrote:
> > Am 22.02.2004 um 01:10 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
> > > On 21 Feb 2004, at 23:49, Philip Mötteli wrote:
> > > The runtime should ensure that [NSArray+initialize] is called before 
> > > [NSMutableArray+initialize]
> >
> > Is that sure?
>
> Yes.

You're right.


> > > and that [NSMutableArray+initialize] is called before any other 
> > > method of the class, so I don't know how -initWithCapacity: could be 
> > > called without NSMutableArrayClass being initialised.
> > > or step through in debug yourself to find out what is going on?
> >
> > I set a breakpoint in both +initialize, in NSMutableArray and NSArray 
> > and NSArray's initialize is clearly not called.
>
> Then I guess for some reason the runtime does not think that 
> NSMutableArray inherits from NSArray ... why not?

I found the problem: I have a +initialize method in a category of 
NSArray. So the runtime system called only this one.


Sorry!
Phil