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mlRe: How to find EXC_BAD_ACCESS bug?
FROM : John C. Randolph
DATE : Wed Aug 18 01:29:34 2004

On Aug 17, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Andrew Duncan wrote:

> On 17 Aug, 2004, at 15:39, John C. Randolph wrote:

>> On Aug 17, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andrew Duncan wrote:
>>

>>> My Cocoa app regularly crashes with this bad access error,[...]

>>
>> Run your app with NSZombiesEnabled turned on.  This kind of problem
>> is almost always the result of over-releasing an object.

>
> Thanks John, is this a preprocessor define?


No, it's an environment variable.  Set it in the executable inspector
in XCode.

Actually, that should be "NSZombieEnabled".

For details, see "NSDebug.h".

-jcr



John C. Randolph    <<email_removed>>  (408) 974-8819
Sr. Cocoa Software Engineer,
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
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