Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Bus Error involving NSFormatter and a method with returns by reference

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 8-mrt-2006, at 20:51, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> Phil,
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> This seems to be a bug in PyObjC. I can reproduce this using the  
> attached project and am currently looking into this.

And I've solved the bug. The problem is that the user of the  
formatter doesn't actually want the error message and passes a NULL  
pointer to the method. Before my most recent checkin we happely  
dereferenced that pointer and wrote something there, resulting in  
random memory corruption.

Ronald

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> Ronald
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> <Formatter.tgz>