Re: [Pyobjc-dev] threads + autoreleasepools

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> >>>> NSAutoreleasePool.alloc().init()
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > ValueError: NSInvalidArgumentException - *** -[NSAutoreleasePool
> > retain]: Cannot retain an autorelease pool
> >>>>
> >
> > Any wisdom? Or is it a bug?
> 
> It is a bug. Are you using libffi?

Yup.

> I only get this error when not
> using libffi. 

I just tried again after cvs up, same thing.

> The problem is that NSInvocation seems to call retain
> on the 'self' argument of the invocation.

Bill's pyobjcPushPool/pyobjcPopPool stuff works fine, and it's arguably
a better solution. (But looking at an autorelease pool in my Python code
_does_ make make stomache turn ;-)

> BTW. I'm not entirely sure that the bridge itself it thread-safe.

I'll let you know when it crashes ;-)

Just