Re: using NSKeyedArchiver ...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 27 Dec 2006, at 14:41, Paddy Smith wrote:

> the following code 'seems to work' on macosx, but not on the gnustep
> in debian etch.
> Am I doing something silly ?
>
> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
>        NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>
>        NSMutableString *foo;
>        foo=[[NSMutableString alloc] init];
>        [foo setString: @"wib"];
>        NSLog(@"check: %08x: %@", foo, foo);
>
>        NSData *bar;
>        bar=[NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:foo];
>
>        NSMutableString *baz;
>        baz=[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:bar];
>        NSLog(@"check: %08x: %@", baz, baz);
>
>        [pool release];
>        return 0;
> }


You are not doing anything silly ... you found a bug.

This is now fixed in the subversion repository, and you can get the  
fix by checking out the stable branch of the base library ...

svn co svn://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/base/branches/base-1_13_0/