Re: Xcode debugging
Re: Xcode debugging
- Subject: Re: Xcode debugging
- From: Mark Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:27:08 +0000
- Organization: Coderus Ltd
Thanks for the info, I guess I can do "po" on CF objects as I'm find adding
in Debug code defeats the need of the debugger variable window.
Sorry I must have missed the memory browser option - Doh !!!.
Thanks
Mark.
>
> On Mar 22, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm finding with Debugging and Xcode is really hard looking a
>> certain
>> variable types can you
>>
>> 1) Actually look at CF and NS objects when within the console say
>> via a
>> print command ???.
>
> Not sure what you mean here. the print command in the console will
> show you the contents of the CF & NS types, but most often these are
> either opaque types - i.e. the debugger doesn't know what the
> structure fields are, or the fields are not very helpful because
> getting from them to the actual contents of the object is not trivial.
>
> You can use the "print-object" command ("po" for short) to run the
> "description" method for the object. For CF objects, the command
> CFShow fulfills the same purpose.
>
>>
>> 2) Looking at char* and strings, by default the debugger always
>> crops the
>> text but I want to look at the whole thing, this is also true if
>> you do it
>> in the console as well. Can you can the print statement to show the
>> whole
>> thing ???.
>
> In the console type:
>
> (gdb) set print elements 0
>
> and it will print the entire contents of strings.
>
>>
>> 3) Is there anyway to just look at memory and then also any size.
>
> In Xcode 1.5 and above there is a memory browser under Debug->Tools-
>> Memory Browser.
>
> In the gdb console, do:
>
> (gdb) help x
>
> to get info about the "examine" command, which is what you want here.
>
> Jim
>
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Mark.
>>
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