[MacRuby-devel] Super not passing init: through to NSObject correctly?

6 Oct 2009

      Hi all,
I searched a few months of the list archives and trac, but wasn't able  
to find reference to this.

Calling `super` inside of an overridden #init function where no ruby  
ancestors define #init causes a segmentation fault. If I'm not  
mistaken, shouldn't the init: message be passed to NSObject?

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class HasInit
def init
   super
   p 'HasInit'
   self
end
end

class A < HasInit; end

class B < A; end

A.new
p 'A'
B.new
p 'B'

class HasNoInit; end

class C < HasNoInit; end

class D < C
def init
   super
   self
end
end

C.new
p 'C'
D.new
p 'D'
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You should see the segfault happen when trying to init D, but HasInit  
passes the message through to NSObject just fine, it seems.

Tested with the 2009-10-05-1158 nightly.

Thanks!
--Mike

[MacRuby-devel] Super not passing init: through to NSObject correctly?

Michael Shapiro