Apple

My environment: OS X Lion 10.7.5, Xcode 4.6.3

I have Googled, and StackOverFlowed but not yet found what can be done.

My issue is that the debugger displays the text of these two variables :

NSString *imgpath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForImageResource:@"normal"];

This one is of (Class)_NSCFString and after the address displays @"/Users/.…"

NSAttributedString *normal = [[NSAttributedString alloc]initWithString:@"THEGARBLE"attributes:attrs];

Similarly this one is of (Class) NSConcreteAttributedString and displays @"THEGARBLE"

However these two are of (Class) _NSCFConstantString and do not display any text.

NSString *plain = [normal string];

NSString *plain2 = @"THEGARBLE";

I have right-clicked on all the variables and done Print Description of…

Everything displays on the log and is correct.

I've also looked up what info I could find about Summary Format for type….

Aside from one reference which attempts to describe the undocumented syntax nothing helpful.

So it seems to me that at least NSStrings of (Class) _NSCFConstantString will not be displayed.

But the others seem to work as expected.

Questions

(0) Did I miss something?

(1) How can this be solved to display the data for _NSCFConstantStrings?

thanks….

Peter