On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Tom Jones wrote: > I'm trying to understand why I'm getting thrown in to the debugger when using > NSError. I have three methods and I'm overloading them and trying to pass the > NSError along the way. What am I doing wrong?
> -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *)aType error:(NSError **)err > { > NSError *localErr = nil; > NSString *result = [self getDataForType:aType separator:@"\t" > excludeFields:nil error:&localErr]; > *err = *localErr; This is incorrect. The left and right sides are of two different types. The compiler should have at least warned, if not given an error. "*localErr" is an NSError. It's not an NSError* (pointer to NSError), it's actually the type of the object (or struct). There's almost never a case to dereference an object pointer like this. "*err" is an NSError*, a pointer to an NSError. What you wanted is: *err = localErr; Actually, if you're not doing more with localErr, you can just eliminate it and just do: NSString *result = [self getDataForType:aType separator:@"\t" excludeFields:nil error:err]; The same mistake affects the next method, too. > return result; > } Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com