Re: [bugs #8498] [MinGW] NSUnarchiver crashes

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 10 Apr 2004, at 03:09, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> 
> > Wim,
> >
> > In the directory:
> >
> > gnustep/dev-apps/test/gormtest
> >
> > There is an application which extensively tests .gorm functionality.
> >
> > GJC
> > --- Wim Oudshoorn <woudshoo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >> Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> All,
> >>>
> >>> Initial tests indicate that this breaks .gorm loading for some 
> >>> reason.   I
> >> need
> >>> to do further tests.   I recommend not adding this patch until this 
> >>> problem
> >> has
> >>> been investigated and cleared.
> >>>
> >>> GJC
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for testing, is there a simple testcase which I can
> >> run as well?
> 
> The supplied patch didn't retain/release objects in all cases where 
> they are added to
> and removed from the map ... which could have very nasty effects when 
> the map was
> emptied at the end of unarchiving.
> 
> I updated CVS with a version of the code which (afaik) does the 
> rating/release correctly.
> I tested that against some of my own software, and against Wim's test 
> program.
> 
> I couldn't properly test against gnustep/dev-apps/test/gormtest since 
> the AppDelegate.m
> file is missing from CVS and the app wouldn't build ... however I did 
> hack in enough code
> to get it to build and run without crashing., so I'm pretty confident 
> of the fix.
> If the fix causes problems, please revert it.

Thanks!  I'll commit the AppDelegate.* files and test it.

GJC

=====
Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.

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