Well, I didn't mean to start a big discussion about it. I used a dictionary just because it was easier to add NSCopying to NSCFType than it was to move over to CFArray.
Thanks for the help... my tests are now passing. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Stefan Bidi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Am 20.05.2011 um 18:03 schrieb Stefan Bidi: >> >> > Earlier today I committed the first set of changes to CFString. It now >> uses libicu instead of NSString. This will allow a lot of extra >> functionality to work, include any of the functions that use CFLocale. >> Anyway, that's just the background. >> > >> > In order to make this work, I moved __CFStringMakeConstantString() to >> CFString.c and changed it to use CFDictionary instead of NSSet (CFSet >> doesn't yet exist). When I did that, I started getting an exception >> whenever trying to add anything to the dictionary (CFString.c:1173). It >> took me a while to figure it out, and it is due to GSDictionary setting >> GSI_MAP_RETAIN_KEY() being set to call -copyWithZone:. For some reason, >> whenever that happens I get a NSCFType does not recognize -copyWithZone: >> exception. >> > >> > I don't understand enough about how GSDictionary works, so I was >> wondering if anyone could help me out here? Really, I don't even understand >> why -copyWithZone: is being called since I just need to object retained, not >> copied. >> >> I think it is because the key of a NSDictionary is always copied to >> prevent e.g. problems when >> using a NSMutableString as a key and change its value on the fly... >> > > Ah... Makes sense. I guess I'll need to add that method to NSCFType. > > Why aren't you using a NSArray/CFArray to simulate a NSSet? They are much >> more similar than >> dictionaries and sets. >> > > I'll take a look into it. Thanks for the pointer. > > Thanks >
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