I have submitted yet another attempt at a bug fix to Apple, though it is becoming increasingly obvious that the bug which plagues the layout of the text area never happens with a development build, only with the app as distributed by iTunes. I spent several hours last night and tonight reviewing the details of the build settings, and one thing I am sure of: the previous standard GCC compiler has bugs in it which may write code into the application which differ from what I write. When I started two years ago, GCC was all we had for iPhone, but Apple has since introduced a new LLVM compiler which is supposed to be faster and better. We’ll see…
There also seems to be a bug in Xcode’s snapshots feature which sometimes removes updates to my code. So every now and then, I have to fix bugs twice.