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      1 /*
      2  * libjingle
      3  * Copyright 2007, Google Inc.
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     26  */
     27 // Helper function for using Cocoa with Posix threading.
     28 
     29 #import <assert.h>
     30 #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
     31 
     32 #import "talk/base/maccocoathreadhelper.h"
     33 
     34 namespace talk_base {
     35 
     36 // Cocoa must be "put into multithreading mode" before Cocoa functionality can
     37 // be used on POSIX threads. The way to do that is to spawn one thread that may
     38 // immediately exit.
     39 void InitCocoaMultiThreading() {
     40   if ([NSThread isMultiThreaded] == NO) {
     41     // The sole purpose of this autorelease pool is to avoid a console
     42     // message on Leopard that tells us we're autoreleasing the thread
     43     // with no autorelease pool in place; we can't set up an autorelease
     44     // pool before this, because this is executed from an initializer,
     45     // which is run before main.  This means we leak an autorelease pool,
     46     // and one thread, and if other objects are set up in initializers after
     47     // this they'll be silently added to this pool and never released.
     48 
     49     // Doing NSAutoreleasePool* hack = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
     50     // causes unused variable error.
     51     NSAutoreleasePool* hack;
     52     hack = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
     53     [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(class)
     54                              toTarget:[NSObject class]
     55                            withObject:nil];
     56   }
     57 
     58   assert([NSThread isMultiThreaded]);
     59 }
     60 
     61 }  // namespace talk_base
     62