Hi Folks,
I have been using GNUstep Foundation for a while as a portable
platform base for Linux, Darwin and OS X/Darwin. It works very well -
up until now, I haven't found a bug, and technically, I still haven't!
While tracking one of my own bugs I have just noticed that -
[NSAutoreleasePool drain] is a no-op for non-Garbage Collected
environments. This behaviour is documented at http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference/index.html
and it does indeed work as documented.
This is unfortunate as the Apple version of -[NSAutoreleasePool
drain] calls [-NSAutoreleasePool release] for non-garbage collected
environments, and is encouraged by Apple as an alternative to -
[NSAutoreleasePool release] in all their example and other source code
as it behaves correctly in Garbage Collected and non-Garbage Collected
environments. Apple's and GNUstep's -[NSAutoreleasePool release]
behave similarly - a no-op for Garbage Collected environments and
release the NSAutoreleasePool in non-Garbage Collected environments.
May I humbly suggest that GNUstep's -[NSAutoreleasePool drain] is
updated to behave exactly like Apple's - IE to call -
[NSAutoreleasePool release] in non-Garbage Collected environments?
This is easy to work around, but I expect that I won't be the first to
fail to notice the difference! If this has come up before, and been
voted down, I'll understand. But searching the archives for
Regards,
Chris
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