B) is possible now. I used it a few months ago when debugging a ton of nested auto-release pools. I can’t remember the commands right now, but it required some stuff at the beginning to turn on auto-release debug support. Then I could walk through auto-release pools in the debugger or even NSLog them.
On Jan 10, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 11/01/2010, at 11:01 AM, Paul Sanders wrote: > >> Have >> you got the energy to file an enhancement request Graham? > > > Filed: #7528006 > > "It would be useful to have available the following two debugging functions: > > a) A way to test whether a given object is referenced by any current > autorelease pool. > b) A way to dump (log) the content of all current autorelease pools. > > One problem with debugging over-release issues is when an object is > deallocated but a reference to it remains in an autorelease pool. The later > pop of the pool will crash, but information about what object caused the > problem is lost unless zombies is on, and even then that tells you very > little about where the real problem lies, the answer to which will often be > found in the calling stack for the prior release that called -dealloc. > > The ability to assert on an autorelease pool holding a reference to self at > -dealloc time would be a useful weapon in the fight against this sort of bug, > without the overhead of running Instruments which is often overkill for this > sort of problem, as well as causing performance issues that discourage its > use. " > > > > Please file dupes to help get it noticed, if you think this would be useful. > > --Graham > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/alex%40webis.net > > This email sent to a...@webis.net Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. "There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year." -- Anonymous _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
