Bizarrely, running your sample project in under the Zombies Instrument produces no crash, but it _does_ spin the pinwheel forever during startup, creating infinitely many instances of NSDictionary.
--Kyle Sluder On Tue, Mar 19, 2013, at 04:54 PM, Seth Willits wrote: > > This has taken me a *very long time* to narrow down to its simplest bits > and it's very puzzling to me. > > > The short story is I have an NSTextStorage subclass as I'm doing many > different things, syntax coloring among them. I would swear that > everything I'm doing is a legitimate implementation, but there is > obviously something causing internal behavior in the text system to go > haywire. The result is that the text system itself (not me!) is > over-releasing the NSParagraphStyle. The memory management in my code is > solid, so the problem has to be in the text system itself. > > The example project: > http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/PGSOverRelease.zip > > There are a number of factors involved in reliably reproducing this > behavior and this project has one set of circumstances that will > reproduce it, but there are others. If you slightly change any of these > factors (all changes which should have no effect), then the over-release > crash does not occur. > > I have read and re-read all of the text storage documentation multiple > times and I am thusly confident that either some critical elusive > behavior is undocumented or I've found a legitimate bug in the text > system. > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is severely impacting my work > at the moment. > > > -- > Seth Willits _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
