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  • Subject: Re: Block Confusion...
  • From: R <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:05:21 -0800 (PST)

never mind..... the class was getting dealloc.  Still getting use to
ARC and new ivar techniques.

thanks!

On Jan 31, 9:16 am, R <email@hidden> wrote:
> My confusion is that the array in class A is used later in the code,
> it is just nil inside the block that is running on another thread.
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> On Jan 31, 8:07 am, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
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> > On 30 Jan 2012, at 8:56 PM, R wrote:
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> > > One class creates a STRONG pointer to a NSMutableArray.  It then
> > > passes that pointer to another class, which has a WEAK reference.
> > > that class is listed below.  When I fork a new thread for the
> > > simpleBlock, I lose the pointer.  I tried this on a fresh, very simple
> > > test and I did not have this behavior.  It behaved as expected with
> > > the same memory address for all three logs.
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> > I'll call "one class" ClassA, and "another class" ClassB.
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> > Instances of ClassA have a strong reference to an NSMutableArray. Instances of ClassB borrow the array through a weak reference.
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> > I think if you create a -[ClassA dealloc] method to log the deallocation of a ClassA, you'll find that the ClassA object is deallocated before the enqueued block uses the ClassB reference to the array. In a simple case (no other object has a strong reference to the array), the array gets deallocated, too. ClassB's reference being weak, the reference is nilled-out.
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> > The call to [self checkMutableArray] causes the block to retain self, not the weakly-referenced array. The call isn't resolved until the block is run.
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> > The other case worked only by chance. You should treat the timing and order of deallocation as though they were nondeterministic.
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> >         — F
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