NSSpellChecker crashes after 64k words

FROM : Denis Stanton
DATE : Mon Apr 11 02:35:16 2005

Hi

I have written a little program to solve a word puzzle.  The program
puts together possible words by appending permutations of supplied
letters and syllables.
To determine whether the resulting string is a valid word I and using
NSSpellChecker

               NSRange wordRange = [spellChecker checkSpellingOfString: string
startingAt: 0];
               if (wordRange.length == 0) {
                   NSlog([NSString stringWithFormat: @" %@ is a word", string]);
               }

The problem is my program fails with
   Executable “MyApp” has exited due to signal 10 (SIGBUS).

after checking about 64,000 words.  I guess it's hitting 64k (65,536)
and this is some magic limit in NSSpellChecker.

Does anybody know how to reset whatever counter is causing
NSSpellChecker to give up?
I thought at first it was accumulating a large ignored words list, so I
added closeSpellDocumentWithTag but that didn't help, and I see that
the ignored word list count is zero so that's not it.

Denis

Denis Stanton
Orcon Internet Limited
(09) 480 9299
http://www.orcon.net.nz