Re: another exception triggered by OGo in gnustep-base

[David Chisnall]

On 29 Jul 2011, at 13:51, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> I found this documentation here:
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSData_Class/Reference/Reference.html
> Initializes a newly allocated data object by adding to it length bytes of 
> data from the buffer bytes.
> 
> but it doesn't state that a subclass should implement it???
> 
> SkyDecodeWrapperData is a subclass of NSData, so I should implement that 
> method there?

I think this is a GNUstep bug.  The default implementation o 
initWithBytesNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone: should probably be releasing self and 
returning a new instance of the class that does support this initialiser (as 
happens in the placeholder data class).

David

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