Re: Segmentation faults when overriding objects drop

[Ken Cline]

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Konrad Lang wrote:

> This is taken from the Breeder-1.4.1 library.
> I integrated the library into my swarm and the
> segmentation faults occured when more then 100 models with
> different Chromosomes had run.  After replacing this by a
> function that explicitly frees the memory and does not
> touch the original drop everything seems ok.
> 
> // New free function - overriding of drop causes segmentation faults
> -free {
>    free( genotype );
>    [super drop];
>    return nil;
> }

It looks like (but I can't be sure, of course) that you are
not using the Zone mechanisms to allocate/deallocate the
memory referenced by `genotype'.  I'm not sure if this could
explain the seg fault but its worth a shot.

Ken.

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