Re: PDFKit and 64-bit bugs

Please send me bug #s for any PDFKit crashes while running under GC.

thanks,
b.bum

On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote:

> On 5 Sep 2009, at 23:10, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> I've finally moved to upgrade a PDFKit app to 64-bits. However,  
>> it's giving me all kinds of crashers which I'm pretty sure are bugs  
>> in PDFKit. It seems that whenever I call -[PDFBorder dashPattern]  
>> or -[PDFPage attributedString] it crashes, and on 10.5.8 also - 
>> [PDFView areaOfInterestForMouse:] (though that seems to originate  
>> in -[PDFPage loadTextChars]). I've found some ugly workarounds for  
>> the first two, but the last one remains illusive.
>
> I've had no issues with any of these methods. Not on 10.5.any in 32  
> bit, and not on 10.6 in 64 bit. My app is garbage collected, so if  
> your is not, that might explain the lack of issues for these  
> particular methods (although that would surprise me: non-GCd PDFKit  
> seems to be noticeably better tested than GCd PDFKit).
>
> What's with loadTextChars? That is not a PDFKit method, probably a  
> brew of your own :-)
>
> (There are definitely bugs in PDFKit though, including some new ones  
> in 10.6, which fortunately also fixes some old ones.)
>
> -António
>
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