Re: Is NSDateFormatter thread-safe?
Re: Is NSDateFormatter thread-safe?
- Subject: Re: Is NSDateFormatter thread-safe?
- From: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:40:27 -0700
Hi Jens,
NSDateFormatter is listed as thread-unsafe in the documentation, so you need to review how you're using your instances.
<http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/ThreadSafetySummary/ThreadSafetySummary.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000057i-CH12-122647-BBCCEGFF>
If you have more specific questions to do with what's OK or not, I'd suggest filing a bug report to ask for improved documentation.
j o a r
On 31 okt 2011, at 17:27, Jens Alfke wrote:
> I have some code that uses a shared NSDateFormatter instance to convert dates to/from ISO-8601 format. This code is now being invoked on multiple threads, and I’m getting intermittent malloc warnings about double frees, and one actual crash.
> My assumption was that an NSDateFormatter should be thread-safe as long as I treat it as read-only (not changing any attributes) but this makes me think I’m wrong. Anyone know for sure?
>
> Here’s the usual backtrace I see in a malloc warning or crash:
>
> #0 0x018f83b4 in icu::OlsonTimeZone::operator= ()
> #1 0x018f9f2d in icu::OlsonTimeZone::clone ()
> #2 0x018bb400 in icu::DateFormat::parse ()
> #3 0x01964d05 in udat_parse ()
> #4 0x01623161 in CFDateFormatterGetAbsoluteTimeFromString ()
> #5 0x01622f8e in CFDateFormatterCreateDateFromString ()
> #6 0x006bf7e9 in getObjectValue ()
> #7 0x006bf701 in -[NSDateFormatter getObjectValue:forString:errorDescription:] ()
> #8 0x006bfa3f in -[NSDateFormatter dateFromString:] ()
> …
>
> —Jens
>
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