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  • Subject: Source file paths showing up in strings of executable
  • From: Daniel DeCovnick <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:05:09 -0700

Not sure if this is the right list, but since it seems to be exclusive to Obj-C, I'm sending it here.

Recently I've noticed that running the command line program "strings" against a release build (with debugging or all symbols stripped) reveals several full paths of source code files, specifically .m and .mm files; I haven't seen .cpp or .c files show up. Strangely, it's not all of them, nor can I find any commonality between them. At one point I thought it was from use of a macro we use around NSLog, but some files using it don't show up, and some which don't use it do. I looked for these files in the .pbxproj, but didn't see anything unusual.

Running strings on other programs showed that other developers, including Apple, have this issue. I looked at Terminal, Xcode, Interface Builder, and Twitterrific, and all had 1-5 source file paths. We have a lot more than that though, around 20.

Does anyone know what causes this, and/or how to prevent it?

-Daniel
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