Re: NSZoneMallocAtomic disappeared from NSZone.h in -trunk

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 24 Mar 2009, at 06:30, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> sope doesn't compile anymore with gnustep-base trunk. When I take a  
> look at
> the code in sope, how it is using NSZoneMallocAtomic there I see, it  
> is using
> NSZoneMallocAtomic everywhere but for NeXT_Foundation_LIBRARY I  
> guess, it may
> also be available on Mac OS X, but I've no possibility to check that  
> out, at
> least googling NSZoneMallocAtomic only finds references to gnustep and
> libFoundation.
>
> I'm writing here, because of my research now, I'm not perfectly sure  
> whether
> it was removed intentionally or accidently.

The atomic malloc zone is a libFoundation/GNUstep specific extension.   
It is not, and has never been in Cocoa.

It was removed intentionally ... I had no idea any code outside  
GNUstep core used it, as the old GC code never worked fully for me,  
but I received no bug reports from anyone else!  Presumably the sope  
code would simply work if you replaced it with the default malloc zone.