Apple

On 2008-10-26, at 17:00:15, Jens Ayton wrote:

On Oct 23, 2008, at 08:11, Markus Spoettl wrote:

Hello List,

ever since upgrading to 3.1.1 (from 3.0) Xcode litters the console with hundreds of these messages each session:

10/22/08 11:04:07 PM [0x0-0x5ab5ab].com.apple.Xcode[17320] Xcode(17320,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x25e5a70, has non-zero refcount = 1

They're created all the time but the highest frequency occurs when starting a debug session or just running the application making it extremely difficult to see the debug log output that my own applications generate.

I suppose the Xcode dev team must see this too and I can't see any benefit to me having to wade through this kind of stuff. Is there a way to make Xcode stop writing this to the console? Preferably just this one message.

Workaround: put the following in a file named “Console minus Xcode.aslquery” or similar:
(
   {
       key = Facility;
       op = 1;
       value = "com.apple.console";
   },
   {
       key = Sender;
       op = 70;
       value = Xcode;
   }
)

and stick it in ~/Library/Application Support/Console/ASLQueries. You can then select this filter from the sidebar in Console. (Op 70 is ASL_QUERY_OP_NOT_EQUAL | ASL_QUERY_OP_SUFFIX, a combination not selectable in Console’s in-build query editor – it doesn’t support any negative queries. My bug on this was duped to rdar://5039022.)

Credit to Peter Hosey, see http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-01-24/asl-console

Thanks a bunch Jens and BoredZo,

I put the following in ~/Library/Application Support/Console/ASLQueries as NoXcode.aslquery and it works.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<array>

<dict>

<string>Sender</string>

<key>value</key>

<string>Xcode</string>

</dict>

</array>

</plist>

Philip Aker

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References:
	>Console littered by Xcode 3.1.1 garbage collection messages (From: Markus Spoettl <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Console littered by Xcode 3.1.1 garbage collection messages (From: Jens Ayton <email@hidden>)