Re: About iVars declaration and property
Re: About iVars declaration and property
- Subject: Re: About iVars declaration and property
- From: Dave Fernandes <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:50:02 -0500
For some reason, sometimes my synthesized ivars show up in the debugger as ivars, and sometimes they don't. Can anyone explain this? I can't remember whether this is with GDB or LLDB.
On 2011-11-13, at 5:24 AM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> Explicitly declaring your ivars makes them easier to see in the
> debugger. Otherwise you have to call the property accessor from gdb's
> command line to look at it.
>
> I feel that it's helpful to declare them in any case, so I can
> more-easily tell how much memory each of my objects is taking up by
> looking at its list of ivars.
>
> Not every property is backed by the ivar it acts as asscessors for.
> It's perfectly legal to implement custom accessors that do other
> things than set or get instance variables. They could instead run
> some sort of calculation, or set some other combination of ivars.
>
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