Re: Methods with Variable Numbers of Arguments

FROM : matt neuburg
DATE : Tue Dec 17 23:02:25 2002

On 12/17/02 at roughly 3:30 PM, thus spake Joe Osborn <<email_removed>>:

>I'm just not sure where it could happen... I'm invoking the method like
>this:
>
>    OSBlock * block = [OSBlock blockWithString:@"[self workEffectively];
>return [NSData class];" nouns:self, [NSData class]];
>
>So I don't see how anything could happen to the string constant I feed.

I didn't say it was *that* string. I said it was *a* string. When there's a retain error and a string vanishes, string pointers can shift down and start pointing at the wrong thing. Sometimes it's another string. Sometimes it's garbage. m.

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