On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Alejandro Rodriguez
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>        I am using NSMutableSet quite extensively in my app mostly just adding 
> items to it and reading them (almost never removing). However sometimes it 
> crashes under very interesting conditions. I can't reliable recreate the 
> issue but sometimes I get a 'attempted to insert nil' exception when 
> FILTERING the set using a predicate, if I breakpoint at this exception and 
> print the set description I see that it has many valid objects but also a 
> bunch of nil (null) objects which doesn't make any sense since I can't insert 
> nil objects to the set in the first place!
>
>        I can't think of any scenario where I can insert nil objects to the 
> set or insert a valid object which would then point nil. My app is 
> multi-threaded and the set is accessed in @sychronized blocks from many 
> threads all the time.
>
>        Has anyone had a similar problem? am  I missing something? is it a bug 
> with the foundation object?


What kind of objects are in the set? What do their -isEqual: and -hash
methods look like? Is there any possibility that objects in that set
are changed in a way that affects the results returned by their
-isEqual: and/or -hash methods?

-- 
Clark S. Cox III
[email protected]
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