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Re: Coded breakpoint


  • Subject: Re: Coded breakpoint
  • From: William Kitching <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:52:50 +0000

That's for the info guys, much appreciated.


On 12 Mar 2009, at 01:34, Jim Ingham wrote:

Debugger and friends are a convenient way to do this.

Note, however, that even though it says so in the Tech Note, you shouldn't assume that these calls do their magic by using a SIGINT. All you can assume is that if USERBREAK is set, they will stop in the debugger in a way that you can recover from, and if you aren't running in the debugger, you'll probably crash...

In more recent OS'es these functions work by causing a trap, for instance. So don't expect that inserting a SIGINT handler will necessarily catch the exception that Debugger, etc, raise.

Jim

On Mar 11, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:

On Mar 11, 2009, at 7:46 PM, William Kitching wrote:

I want to write my own custom assert handlers and to do this I need to trigger a breakpoint from the code. Is there a way to trigger a coded stop/breakpoint in xcode?

The Debugging Magic technote <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2124.html#SECCORESERVICES > says this:


Core Services includes a number of routines (for example, Debugger, DebugStr, and SysBreak) that enter the debugger with a message. If you set the USERBREAK environment variable to 1, these routines will send a SIGINT signal to the current process, which causes you to break into GDB. Xcode has GUI to enabled this facility (the "Break on Debugger() and DebugStr()" checkbox in the Debugging panel of the executable inspector [...]).

Cheers, Ken

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