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

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On 5-apr-04, at 6:05, b.bum wrote:

> 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?

We do that. As bob noted the problem is that we release an 
uninitialized object. I try to do the right thing when this happens, 
but that's obviously not good enough. It's probably better to just leak 
when this happens (and log/warn about this)

Ronald
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