Re: How to find EXC_BAD_ACCESS bug?

FROM : Frederick Cheung
DATE : Wed Aug 18 01:29:02 2004

On 18 Aug 2004, at 01:03, Andrew Duncan wrote:

> On 17 Aug, 2004, at 15:44, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

>> On Aug 17, 2004, at 4:13 PM, Andrew Duncan wrote:
>>

>>> My Cocoa app regularly crashes with this bad access error,[...]
>>> What are the basic tools/procedures for using Xcode to narrow this
>>> down?

>>
>> Can you give us some backtraces of these crashes?

>
> Thanks Nick; at this point I think the backtraces are just too
> different each time to really help. (I may be wrong about this
> though.)
>
> But on a related note, the debugger log suggests
>
>  Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help
> debug
>
> So what environment is it talking about?
>

NSZombieEnabled is also an environment variable. An easy way to set
these is in the arguments tab of the info window for your executable
(in Xcode).

Fred
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