Re: [Pyobjc-dev] issues with NSURL and NSWindow?

[b.bum <bb...@ma...>]

On Apr 4, 2004, at 8:59 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> It's releasing something that was alloc'ed but not init'ed.  It 
> probably should bus error.  I'm not sure how we are supposed to catch 
> that anyway?  I guess we would have to keep track to see if it was 
> alloc'ed but not initialized, and then send it dealloc instead of 
> release.
>
> This gets a bus error too, btw:
> #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
>
> int main (int argc, char **argv) {
>     NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>     NSURL *url;
>     url = [NSURL alloc];
>     [url release];
>     [pool release];
> }

That is a symptom of an earlier failure.    The fact the PyObjC is 
attempting to send initWithString instead of initWithString: is the 
root cause (or else initWithString: wouldn't work, would it?).

Can we catch the attempt to invoke a method that does not exist?

b.bum