Re: NSDate oddity

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, May 4, 2001, at 07:41 AM, Michael Scheibler wrote:

> I have problems, too, with different behaviour in gdb to running the app
> from command line. But my problem is becoming really serious. I can't 
> debug
> at all because gdb stops with a SIGSEGV fault just after starting the
> application.
> It happens when the objc runtime loads all the classes into its class 
> tree.
>
> The error occurs in sarray_free()
>
>   429 #else /* OBJC_SPARSE2 */
> - 430     struct sbucket* bkt = array->buckets[counter];
> - 431     if ((bkt != array->empty_bucket) &&
>   432  (bkt->version.version == array->version.version))
>
>        // btk->version.version => Access violation
>
>   433       {
> - 434  sarray_free_garbage(bkt);
> - 435  nbuckets -= 1;
> - 436       }
>   437 #endif
>
>
> As you already mentioned even a small change let the problem - well,
> unfortunately not disappear, but occur when loading another module.
> Is there a bug in libobjc?

None that I know of ... and it's pretty well tested/used.
If you are using mingw I guess I'd have to retract the latter half of 
the above sentence.