Re: GSSet explodes with too many data

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 7 Sep 2004, at 11:56, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > my company develops a software to explore very large quantities of 
> > data
> > using GNUstep-base 1.9.2 mainly on windows.
> >
> > it works generally well in production with our customers. (our 
> > customers
> > are bankers!...)
> >
> > In development, it allows us to do the coding on mac OSX then build on
> > windows and then check for diffences. we're also very happy with this.
> >
> > however we did find some bugs for which we wrote some workaround.
> >
> > when we feed the product with too many data it explodes with a
> > windows-like core-dump.
> >
> > our debugging showed that we relied on GSSet: - (NSArray*) allObjects
> > which explodes because the objects array is allocated on the stack,
> > which has a limited size, rather than on the heap.
> > therefore, we rewrote the method as:
>
> The best option might be to count the number of objects; if we have 
> less
> than, say, fifty, we use the stack, else we malloc memory.

The base library has macros to make it trivial to do just that ... and 
we should
be using them.  I've fixed this in CVS ... but there are probably other 
places
where similar problems have been overlooked.