Re: Creating a GNUstep desktop on Solaris

[Christian Plessl]

Adam Fedor wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Nicolas Roard wrote:
> > > TextEdit.app built successfully. It can be started. Howver, when I 
> > > try to create a new document the application crashes "Illegal 
> > > Instruction (core dumped)". Is this platform related or should I 
> > > douwnload the sources from anywhere else. I can't believe that a 
> > > simple app like TextEdit.app is not yet stable. While installing I got
> >
> >
> > It's probably platform-related -- TextEdit works fine on linux x86/ppc 
> > here.. can you come up with a trace ?
> >
> > bt
> On solaris, it's most likely:
>
> someStructure = [aNullObject someMethod];
>
> or equivalently:
>
> ... [aNullObject someMethod].someStructureMember

I'm rather new to Objective-C and Cocoa/GNUStep programming, but is this 
the standard behavior?

I thought, that messages sent to nil objects should be silently ignored 
by the Objective-C runtime system. Am I missing something?

Best regards,
 Christian