Re: PDFKit and 64-bit bugs

Hi Christiaan,
It's very good that you filed these bugs.

Since these problems are so easy for you to reproduce, you might consider
tossing in a demo that exercises the bug.  I don't think the repro steps can
really be as generic as they seem. For example, one says "Whenever I try to
get the attributedString property of a PDFPage object, I get a warning that
a deallocated object is autoreleased."  Well, Preview is a 64 bit app that
uses PDFKit.  I just tried calling attributedString in there via gdb, and it
seemed to work okay.

A bug that is reproducible is fixable.  A bug report that is obviously valid
and reproducible is easy pickings. :-)

-Ken

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>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 wonder whether others on this list had similar problems? And in
> particular, whether others know workarounds for these bugs, in particular
> the third one?
>
> Thanks,
> Christiaan
>
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