## Objective
Prevent a use-after-free when a macOS pasteboard wrapper outlives the
autorelease pool in which it was created.
Pasteboard cached its NSPasteboard and custom zed-text-hash and
zed-metadata NSString objects as raw ids. These constructors return
autoreleased objects. A later clipboard read could therefore pass a
dangling type identifier to dataForType and crash in objc_msgSend.
## Solution
- Retain the pasteboard and custom type objects for the Pasteboard
lifetime with StrongPtr.
- Copy NSData contents into owned Rust byte buffers before the
autoreleased data object can expire.
- Add a regression test that drains the creation autorelease pool and
then accesses the retained custom types.
## Testing
- cargo test -p gpui_macos --features runtime_shaders
test_custom_types_survive_creation_autorelease_pool --lib
- Built an optimized macOS embedder against the patched GPUI checkout.
## Self-Review Checklist:
- [x] I have reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [x] Unsafe blocks have justifying comments
- [x] The content adheres to Zed UI and icon standards; this change has
no UI
- [x] Tests cover the changed lifetime behavior
- [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable
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Release Notes:
- Fixed a macOS crash that could occur when reading from the clipboard.
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AI Disclosure: I ran into this bug on a project where I'm using GPUI.
For my purposes I patched it on my fork I maintain. I had codex (gpt
5.6-sol) send this PR because I think this fix should be upstreamed.
