Re: trying to debug problems with NSAutoreleasepool

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2007-11-27 14:01:43 +0000 "Sebastian Reitenbach" 
<sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I try to figure out how that NSAutoreleasepool is working, because I 
> want to 
> debug
> some problems I have there while trying to get opengroupware to run 
> on 
> gnustep-base. The webui application breaks in a lot of places in 
> NSAutoreleasepool.m:405
> here the backtrace:

<snipped reasonable looking trace (though line numbers make it look 
like it's not a  current version of gnustep)>

> I added a NSLog statement before that in the while loop in 
> -emptyPool, but 
> that ended up in an endless loop, eating up all my stack frames.

Sure ... NSLog autoreleases things ... likely to cause difficulties in 
the middle of emptying the current pool.

> in LSLoginAccountCommand.m, and in the other places where it runs 
> into that 
> exception, the NSAutoreleasepool seems to be handled like in other 
> applications that work well.

What exception?

> Any idea what could be my problem or how I could try to figure out?

You didn't say what your problem was ... the stacktrace looked like a 
normal emptying of a pool.
Perhaps you have objects in the poolthat are crashing when they are 
released?