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*Help* with mysterious crash... CFRetain related
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*Help* with mysterious crash... CFRetain related


  • Subject: *Help* with mysterious crash... CFRetain related
  • From: Johnny Deadman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:42:08 -0400

I am very sorry to bother the list with this but I am totally out of ideas on what is causing this crash.

I have a subclass of NSTextView which over-rides -typingAttributes to behave a little more predictably (there are circumstances where it inappropriately returns 'nil'- that is a story in itself).

Mostly it works just fine, but one of the lines causes a crash a few moments later. If I comment this line out, the crash doesn't happen. I have marked this in the source below.

The crash seems to occur when a textField in the main editor window, which is bound to a value for a key in the typing attributes (layoutManager.firstTextView.typingAttributes.GLElementStyle), attempts to update. This is triggered in turn by a [textStorage endEditing] message.

The mysterious part is that the crash does not immediately follow a call to the error-causing line, but to the first 'if (attributes != nil)' line. This returns a dictionary with a retain count of 1 which contains the required key (see log below). Adding 'retain's to the returned dictionary does not help, so I do not think it is a simple premature release. I have zombies enable but nothing is showing up.

The method is as follows:

- (NSDictionary *)typingAttributes
{
    NSDictionary *attributes = [super typingAttributes];

if ( attributes != nil ){
NSLog (@"Branch 1: Attributes retain count is: %d", [attributes retainCount]);
NSLog (@"Attributes: %@", attributes);
return attributes;
}
// nil attributes so first attempt to inspect the character to the right
int location = [self selectedRange].location;
if ( location < [[self textStorage] length] )
attributes = [[self textStorage] attributesAtIndex:location
effectiveRange:nil];


    // we must be at EOF: if storage is non-nil then we can look
    // at the character to the left  (location - 1 >= 0)
    //*** THIS IS THE LINE THAT CAUSES THE CRASH ***
    else if ([[self textStorage] length] != 0 )
        attributes = [[self textStorage] attributesAtIndex: location-1
                                                effectiveRange: nil];

    // the textStorage is empty: return an empty dictionary
    else attributes = [NSDictionary dictionary];
    return attributes;
}

Here is the log that immediately precedes the crash:

2005-04-07 09:14:28.277 Greenlight-Tiger[1393] Branch 1: Attributes retain count is: 1
2005-04-07 09:14:28.279 Greenlight-Tiger[1393] Attributes: {
GLCapitalized = 0;
GLElementStyle = Slugline;
<everything else is just what you would expect>
}


Here is the crash log:

Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000006

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9072d008 CFRetain + 60
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x928f9a3c _NSKeyValueObservationInfoCreateByRemoving + 440
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x928f9814 -[NSObject (NSKeyValueObserverRegistration) _removeObserver:forProperty:] + 56
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x928f9704 -[NSObject (NSKeyValueObserverRegistration) removeObserver:forKeyPath:] + 436
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x928fa36c - [NSKeyValueObservationForwarder observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 268
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x92882298 -[NSObject (NSKeyValueObserverNotification) didChangeValueForKey:] + 512
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d7d00 -[NSTextView(NSSharing) setSelectedRanges:affinity:stillSelecting:] + 2924
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x9368b560 -[NSLayoutManager (NSPrivate) _fixSelectionAfterChangeInCharacterRange:changeInLength:] + 820
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x936876a8 -[NSLayoutManager textStorage:edited:range:changeInLength:invalidatedRange:] + 904
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x93687300 -[NSTextStorage _notifyEdited:range:changeInLength:invalidatedRange:] + 140
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x936e9a68 -[NSTextStorage processEditing] + 188
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x936850dc -[NSTextStorage edited:range:changeInLength:] + 284
12 com.apple.Foundation 0x92889ad8 - [NSConcreteMutableAttributedString replaceCharactersInRange:withAttributedString:] + 388
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x936fcbd4 -[NSConcreteTextStorage replaceCharactersInRange:withAttributedString:] + 80
14 com.deepfried.greenlight 0x000032c4 -[GLScreenplayDocument windowControllerDidLoadNib:] + 884 (GLScreenplayDocument.m:157)




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