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Re: Application crashes with no calls tracing back to my code
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Re: Application crashes with no calls tracing back to my code


  • Subject: Re: Application crashes with no calls tracing back to my code
  • From: Arun <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:52:44 +0530

I fixed the crash.
I had to use GuardMalloc.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

-Arun

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
>
> > On Mar 27, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Arun wrote:
> >
> >> My application is crashing sometimes with the following crash log. It
> has no
> >> traces of my code. Can anyone look into the crash log suggest some
> ideas?
> >
> > Probably a memory management bug.  You are over-releasing or
> under-retaining something.  An NSImage, from the looks of things.
> >
> >
> http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2008/09/22/objc_explain_So_you_crashed_in_objc_msgSend.html
>
> And beyond the advice at the link, I should have said to use the Zombie
> instrument or, the manual way, set NSZombieEnabled=YES and
> MallocStackLoggingNoCompact=YES, set a breakpoint in -[_NSZombie
> methodSignatureForSelector:], then when the debugger stops on that
> breakpoint, use "info malloc-history" command to figure out where the zombie
> was originally allocated.
>
>
> http://www.friday.com/bbum/2010/01/10/using-malloc-to-debug-memory-misuse-in-cocoa/
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2004/tn2124.html
>
> Also, use Xcode's Build and Analyze feature to see if the static analyzer
> can identify your memory management bugs.
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
>
>
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 >Application crashes with no calls tracing back to my code (From: Arun <email@hidden>)
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