Re: How to find EXC_BAD_ACCESS bug?

FROM : John C. Randolph
DATE : Thu Aug 19 00:38:05 2004

On Aug 18, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Andrew Duncan wrote:

>>>> 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".

>
> Thanks for the pointer. Now, do I define NSZombieEnabled as 1, or YES,
> or just anything at all? FWIW, I tried 1, and didn't see any new info
> in the run log...


Set it to YES.

It won't log anything until/unless you send a message to a freed object.

-jcr


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