Re: how to crash on normally ignored exceptions
Re: how to crash on normally ignored exceptions
- Subject: Re: how to crash on normally ignored exceptions
- From: matt neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 05:29:39 -0800
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:02:16 +0100, David Remahl <email@hidden> said:
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I have found those rather flaky as well in the new dev tools...
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A work around, which is made quite difficult because classes apparently
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are not registered as symbols in the debugger, is the following:
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(gdb) p (void*)NSClassFromString(@"NSException")
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$1 = (void*)0xa07ed448
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(gdb) p (void*)[$1 instanceMethodForSelector:@selector(raise)]
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$2 = (void*)0x90844888
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(gdb) b *$2
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Breakpoint 1 at 0x90844888
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Could someone from Apple comment on the poor handling of symbolic
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debugging, especially related to Objective-C, in the current gdb/dev
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tools suite? The question may be better suited for the pbdev mailing
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list - I am sorry...
I'd like to hear some discussion of it here, though. As I've said before, gdb (or the PB interface to it) is now pretty much busted OMM; po doesn't do anything most of the time. I mostly "debug" by using lots of NSLogs. m.
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