Re: Retain/Release GSArray in EOEntity

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 07:41 AM, Gerrit Van Dyk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> EOEntity uses GSArray to keep some data (attributeUsedForFetch).
> These attributes are only set once in a GSArray using [[GSArray alloc]

You mean GCArray (in the extensions library)

> initWithArray:], after this method is called the retainCount on the 
> array is
> 0 and it seems like the array is then deallocated somewhere leaving the
> array in an unusable state. I then added a retain to the call and the 
> object
> is now fine.
>
> In my understanding of retain/release doing an alloc should push the
> retainCount by 1. Is this a bug in GSArray or what am I doing wrong?

Your understanding is correct - perhaps there is a bug in GCArray.