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DTSignalFlag was an Apple Cocoa-Touch/Cocoa function for programmatically adding flags to Instruments.

DTSignalFlag was an Apple Cocoa-Touch/Cocoa function for programmatically adding flags to Instruments. It was included as part of the DTPerformanceSession framework.

This has been replaced with kdebug_signpost functions introduced in iOS 10 and macOS 10.12 as outlined in WWDC 2016 video System Trace in Depth.

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How to identify key events in Xcode Instruments?

There used to be a nice tool, DTSendSignalFlag, part of the DTPerformanceSession framework, by which you could programmatically insert flags into Instruments. (Xcode Instruments trace comparison explains how we used this macOS diagnostic tool in iOS…
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