[Vm-dev] What's the magic breakpoint for *** attempt to pop an unknown autorelease pool?

[Eliot Miranda]

John,

    bingo! Thanks so much!!

best,
Eliot

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:19 PM, John M McIntosh <
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> Ummm the magic eight ball says:
> "You should always drain an autorelease pool in the same context
> (invocation of a method or function, or body of a loop) that it was
> created."
>
> "You can debug it by setting a breakpoint in the _CFAutoreleasePoolPop
> function. To find out exactly where, disassemble the _CFAutoreleasePoolPop
> function, and look for the first call to CFLog. On the i386 architecture
> it’s at _CFAutoreleasePoolPop+84."
>
> Also consider just a breakpoint on NSLog CFLog
>
>
> On 2010-11-04, at 9:10 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>     on Mac OS X Snow Leopard anyone know the magic breakpoint to find out
> when the program emits "*** attempt to pop an unknown autorelease pool".
>  I've put breakpoints in __NSAutoreleaseNoPool, write,
> write$NOCANCEL$UNIX2003 (sp?) vrious ctime & ctime_r routines and still I
> can't get gdb to break on producing the error.  Any hints?
>
> TIA
>
> best
> Eliot
>
>
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