Re: macros

[David Relson]

At 11:43 AM 2/23/01, you wrote:

> On Friday, February 23, 2001, at 04:34 PM, David Relson wrote:
>
> > My recollection is that the error is trapped when autorelease is called,
> > not when dealloc is called.  I remember seeing lots of complaints in my
> > early days of using the Foundation classes.  However, I'm too lazy to 
> fire
> > up an OpenStep machine to check.
>
> Actually, I'm describing the GNUstep functionality that I know ... I guess
> this might differ from the OPENSTEP functionality.

Richard,

There are definitely some differences between GNUstep and OPENSTEP :-)  I 
particularly like GNUstep's ability to show object counts.  Under OPENSTEP 
I had create a comparable scheme with macros for incrementing and 
decrementing counters in the init and dealloc methods for each class.

Of course the BIGGEST difference between GNUstep and OPENSTEP is that one 
is alive and well and runs on a viable operating system, while the other isn't.

David
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