Re: The orca, GNUstep's mascot

[Graham J Lee]

Hi Gregory,

On 28 Apr 2008, at 22:52, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> Damn... yes, I was thinking of TEST_RELEASE.
[...]
> Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > RELEASE is a #define which does the standard checking that needs to
> > be done when doing a release.

In what way needs to be done?  The scenarios for sending [obj release]  
are:
1. obj is nil; nothing happens.
2. obj is not an id; crash (if you're lucky).
3. obj is an id which does not respond to @selector(release), and has  
no forwarding mechanism; runtime exception.
4. obj is an id which responds to @selector(release) or consumes it in  
some other way; it does its stuff.

Case 1 is a special example of case 4, so case 2 needs to be tested  
for and some might argue case 3.  But the macro is defined as:

#define TEST_RELEASE(object)     ({ if (object) [object release]; })

which doesn't provide that.

Thanks,
Graham.