Reading Stacktrace in Objective-C?

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I don't like real-time debugging much, but if it's necessary I'll do it.

Is there any way to figure out what line of code a StackTrace in Objective-C refers to? What about the variable it refers to? For instance:

2010-05-13 19:39:11.673 Thingers[21003:207] *** -[NSCFString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b0ebb0
2010-05-13 19:39:11.674 Thingers[21003:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSCFString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b0ebb0'
2010-05-13 19:39:11.675 Thingers[21003:207] Stack: (
    29303899
    ...
    11130
)

I see that we're talking about sending a count message to something that doesn't have it (maybe it's a NSCFString?), but is there any way to figure out what a/the named reference to that instance (0x3b0ebb0) refers to?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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The stack here is mostly useless. What is important here is

-[NSCFString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b0ebb0

This means a -count is sent to a string. This is usually caused by memory management bugs. You could enable NSZombie and run the program again to see what is being over-released.

Also, use Build → Build and Analyze in Xcode to find out possible memory management bugs in statically.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered May 13 '10 at 18:19

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Thanks, that helps. Although this this case I really am sending a `count` message to an object that doesn't have that selector, it's good to know that NSZombie exists. – Dan Rosenstark May 13 '10 at 18:25
@yar: Oh. Don't ignore the compiler warnings :). – kennytm May 13 '10 at 18:27

Reading Stacktrace in Objective-C?

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