running any modal window freezes the application

[masterkain@…]

Running any modal window at runtime freezes the application.

Tested with Sparkling modal window, NSRunAlertPanel, NSAlert

[masterkain@…]

FlickrDemo app also freezes at startup.

[lsansonetti@…]

That's weird, what is your environment? (version of macosx + processor architecture), thanks.

[masterkain@…]

Mac OS X 10.5.5, 2.2 GHz IC2D, using MacRuby trunk

FlickrDemo app freezes almost immediately and become unresponsitive. It's the same kind of freeze that other test apps I tried have, sparkling "check for updates" at startup dialog is an example.

I'll post some code, but it's pretty basic and replicable stuff.

I'm not sure what causes the freeze, if you have pointer on how to help debug I'll try to help.

thanks

[masterkain@…]

oh, and Xcode 3.1.1, gcc:

Target: i686-apple-darwin9
Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5488~2/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin9 --with-arch=apple --with-tune=generic --host=i686-apple-darwin9 --target=i686-apple-darwin9
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)

[lsansonetti@…]

Oh indeed, FlickrDemo freezes here with the latest trunk. It's probably a problem with the new GC finalizer code.

[lsansonetti@…]

The problem has been fixed since, since FlickrDemo.app runs fine with MacRuby trunk (as of r825). Closing.