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Re: Xcode 4.3.1 doesn't show call stack
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Re: Xcode 4.3.1 doesn't show call stack


  • Subject: Re: Xcode 4.3.1 doesn't show call stack
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:34:40 -0700


On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:

-- With the level-of-detail slider in the central default position, the debugger display seems to be telling me that my app stopped in NSApplicationMain, since that's the only backtrace item listed for that thread.

Exactly. Here’s the problem with this feature: Many people (including me) have a first experience with it where they find out after some frustration that it’s lying to them by hiding the real cause of an exception/crash. Then they discover, by trial and error or by asking for help, how to turn it off. Then they say ‘good riddance!’ and leave it off.

It may well be that Joar is right and it’s useful to leave this on with the slider in an intermediate state where it shows some but not all of the intervening stack. (I do often find it very useful to know what system routine called into my code.) I’ll try that out.

But my suggestion is that the default state should be to turn this setting off, or at least leave it at an intermediate level that gives the new user some clue that information is being hidden from him/her.

—Jens

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