It kind of looks like foundCookieJar is an ivar, which means that "return
foundCookieJar" is really going to be "return self->foundCookieJar". Since you
set "self" to "nil", you're trying to dereference a NULL pointer, which is a
great way to crash your app.
HTH,
Dave
On Jul 28, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Mr. Gecko wrote:
> I am unable to find out as to why I am receiving this problem, I can verify
> other parts of the code before it gets to the return and that the object I am
> returning does in-fact work as I am able to NSLog it and see the description
> of it. The basic idea of this code is to notify other objects to see if one
> exists with the same path and if it does, it will tell the object I am using
> to check where it is at by setFoundCookieJar:self. It seems to work, as I can
> see the value when logging it. This one problem is stopping the code I wrote
> from being usable.
>
> If someone can explain why this is happening and give me a link to
> explanation on this signal and why it occurs as I have and a friend of mine
> has seen it in weird areas that seems like it should work from an understand
> of the code and playing around seems like it will work by logging out
> information. From my understanding, this should happen when you, for an
> example, try to access the pointer 0x18c95b0 whenever that belongs to another
> process. However, I also thought that the Mac has a copy of memory space for
> each process and therefore should not be able to access memory that it
> doesn't own unless the core os does so.
>
> [notificationCenter postNotificationName:MGMCookieJarExists object:self
> userInfo:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:cookiesPath
> forKey:MGMCookieJarKey]];
> if (foundCookieJar!=nil) {
> [self release];
> self = nil;
> return foundCookieJar;
> }
>
> Thanks for any help on this issue,
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