Re: GSAutoreleasedMemory

[Marc Brünink]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2006, at 15:21, Marc Brünink wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > thanks to NSDebug I found two small memory leaks. However there's 
> > another one:
> > I'm loosing 2 instances of GSAutoreleasedMemory every few runloops.
> >
> > I do not understand 
> > /usr/src/core/base/Source/Additions/GSObjCRuntime.m at the moment. So 
> > could anyone explain me the use of GSAutoreleasedMemory please?
>
> GSAutoreleasedMemory is a private class whose instances are used to 
> wrap  an area of memory on the heap which is to be freed when the 
> enclosing autorelease pool is deallocated.  It should be impossible 
> for this to be leaked unless you are running without an autorelease 
> pool... in which case you should get lots of warning messages.  Are 
> you sure you are not misinterpreting things?
No. Of course I'm not sure :-)
However I'm also loosing an autoreleased local NSString. So I've a 
problem with AutorelasePools. However I do not get any "autorelease 
called without pool...." message. Perhaps I'm getting an exception in a 
background thread, which is not caught. In such a case the corresponding 
pool wouldn't be released. However the thread itself would exit. Could 
this cause the problem?


Thanks
Marc