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Asked: 2026-05-16T04:21:52+00:00

This is a weird one. On and off as I have been working on

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This is a weird one. On and off as I have been working on my application, this problem has popped up, and then it has always mysteriously vanished. Today it is refusing to vanish.

My app uses two view controllers to handle auto rotation. Sometimes, Objective-C can’t find my classes. For example [OneViewController alloc] will crash. I added a function to catch this state, and even if I call it before I run a single line of my own code, things are still broken. I take this to prove that whatever is wrong, it is not with any bad code I may have written.

Anyone have any idea why universalGoodness would not be a constant?

void verifyUniversalGoodness()
{
 id portrait_class, landscape_class;

 portrait_class = NSClassFromString(@"OneViewController");
 landscape_class = NSClassFromString(@"OtherViewController");
 NSLog(@"CHECKING GOODNESS: portrait %@, landscape %@", portrait_class, landscape_class);
 if (portrait_class == nil || landscape_class == nil)
  exit(0);
}

int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
    verifyUniversalGoodness();

    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, nil);
    [pool release];
    return retVal;

}

Here’s what a stack trace looks like if I let it run to call of alloc …

#1  0x3356296c in _class_initialize ()
#2  0x33567dfe in prepareForMethodLookup ()
#3  0x33565168 in lookUpMethod ()
#4  0x33562914 in _class_lookupMethodAndLoadCache ()
#5  0x3356264a in objc_msgSend_uncached ()
#6  0x000de704 in -[MyAppDelegate finishStartup] (self=0x61c9a0, _cmd=0x303117) at /Users/michael.toy/PROJECT/MyAppDelegate.mm:180
#7  0x32b77904 in __NSFireDelayedPerform ()
#8  0x32c23d22 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific ()
#9  0x32c234e0 in CFRunLoopRunInMode ()
#10 0x30d620da in GSEventRunModal ()
#11 0x30d62186 in GSEventRun ()
#12 0x314d54c8 in -[UIApplication _run] ()
#13 0x314d39f2 in UIApplicationMain ()
#14 0x000e13a8 in main (argc=1, argv=0x2ffff5a8) at /Users/michael.toy/PROJECT/main.mm:38
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  1. Editorial Team

    Thank you for all your responses. It got me looking closer at the problem. It turns out that the class I care about is in one library, and the main is in another library, and both libraries are linked into my final binary.

    I needed to add -Wl,-ObjC to my link line, and that seems to have fixed things and universalGoodness is now restored. I have no idea what triggered the state where this was needed, but I am happy to be back in business.

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