The Xcode debugger provides all the functionality needed for most debugging situations, but a little familiarity with LLDB can be helpful. It will show the running process ID with the name of the application in the Likely Targets section. Log dynamic-linker API calls (for example, dlopen). Fix. Allows you to add an expression to the variable list for the debugger to evaluate and present a result in variable view. The process view options menu enables you to switch the process view display between thread organization and queues organization. Three buttons control the visibility of the navigator area, debug area, and utility area. Enable Address Sanitizer. For capabilities that are on, use this area to view or update any associated configuration and to identify issues that need fixing. Info pane. When an app is paused, input typed in the console is interpreted by LLDB; output from LLDB is sent to the console as well. You can hide the debug gauges to have more room for the process view display by clicking the Hide/Show debug gauges button . Attach to that and, just like normal debugging, it should work. If the current line of code calls a method, step into starts execution at the current line, and then stops when it reaches the first line of the called method. Control-click the breakpoint in the breakpoint navigator and choose Edit Breakpoint from the pop-up menu to display the breakpoint editor. Clicking this button presents a menu of locations to choose from. The bug was mission-critical and we couldn’t afford to wait until we upgrade to Xcode 12. Enabling this filter is handy if you have a lot of breakpoints defined but are working with only a small set of them in an enabled state. Options settings are specific to different technology needs, not just debugging. Once you open the application it will show as running: To detach to debugging mode you’ll get an option just below the attach process: There are lot of perks of debugging and lot of fun options available in XCode. Select the tools that you want Xcode to use. The debug gauges provide insight into how your app is performing in its use of system resources. In Xcode 6.4, there is now only a Run button and whether it runs a debug configuration or not depends on the currently selected scheme settings. Set a watchpoint by Control-clicking the variable in the debug area variable view and choosing “Watch {variable name}” from the pop-up menu. The division of labor in these five parts of debugging are not necessarily reflected in the specifics of the debugging tools, although some tools are more pointed at discovery (for instance, the debug gauges), some are particularly useful for dealing with locations of interest in your code (breakpoints), and others are more specific to inspection (the debug area’s variables view and the debug navigator’s process view). There are several different kinds of breakpoints, and they can be edited to add conditions, actions, and scripts. – user2067021 Jul 23 '15 at 5:32 add a comment | 7 Replace deallocated objects with a “zombie” object that traps any attempt to use it. 5. You can use on-demand resources to enable smaller apps, faster downloads, and richer app content. You choose one to tell a device or the simulator to report that location to your app as it runs. There are a limited number of watchpoints available depending upon the hardware the app is running on. Clicking the disclosure triangle on the left, you “open up” the variable to inspect its component parts and their values, as in the red boxed variable below. Disable/enable breakpoints. Initialize allocated memory with 0xAA and deallocated memory with 0x55. Anything I can do to resolve these warning? The Energy gauge is available in macOS apps when running Xcode 6.3 and greater, and is available for iOS apps with Xcode 7 or greater. Select Attach to Process. Let’s go over the Xcode UI one by one. The scopes of breakpoints are shown in the breakpoint navigator. You disable a breakpoint in the source editor by clicking the breakpoint indicator, even while your app is running; this allows you to adjust set locations where the app will be paused as you work through a problem. Data races occur when multiple threads access the same memory without synchronization and at least one access is a write. Options pane. Control-click the breakpoint and choose the scope from the Move Breakpoint To menu item. Malloc Stack. These icons are displayed in different colors to help you differentiate them easily. Picking a stack frame from the jump bar will bring the source, or disassembly if the source file isn’t available, into the source editor. Sort By. It is on by default. The Quick Look feature works similarly, this time electing the _routePath variable in the example. Choose from this menu the macOS or iOS device (or simulator) the build and run operation will execute on. All displays all variables and registers. Note: The default scope changes to the project if the project is not part of a workspace. Open the breakpoint navigator by clicking the button in the navigator bar. The illustration above shows the source editor, with debug area and debug navigator collapsed, and the app paused by an enabled breakpoint. In the debug area the debugging option would be set to enable: 6. Selecting View Process by Queue changes the backtrace organization to show stack frames below the dispatch queue that created them. Please read Apple's Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy To submit a product bug or enhancement request, please visit the View Memory of “*{variable}”. Add exported and imported UTIs for any file types your app can export or import. The illustration below shows the default layout of the Xcode debugger with the app paused at a breakpoint. For Swift, since you can overload function return types, the return type is a part of the mangled name and is generally available even without debug information, as long as the Swift modules are available. The Trash button at the lower right allows you to clear the console at any time in your session. Note: You can manipulate the instruction pointer in the source editor. There are five parts to the debugging workflow: Locate. It provides tools for discovering issues in your running app and presents the call stack for inspection when the app is paused. The debug gauges monitor your running app. If source is not available, the source editor displays the code as decompiled assembly instructions. You can disable it, or limit it to either OpenGL ES or Metal technology. An editor is displayed that allows you to set the parameters for these types of breakpoints. Release – This is the configuration that will archive the application to be built locally or by CI. This option is on by default. When an enabled breakpoint is encountered during execution, the app pauses and a green indicator shows the position of the program counter. Please read Apple's Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy There are seven types of debug gauges: CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk I/O, Network I/O, GPU, and iCloud. You can create breakpoints at any time, including when your app is running in a debugging session. Click the buttons at the lower right of the console to control the display of the debug area. It also gives you access to some of the less-used debugging functions, such as the Debug > Attach to Process command, which allows you to target an app that is already running with the debugger. They are hosted on the App Store separately from the app bundle downloaded by the user. Using this command changes the display in the source editor to a hex editor display based on the address of {variable}. You can play around and do some fun stuff while debugging. Some of the commands duplicate other ways to obtain the same behavior. This command puts the selected variable’s value into an edit field so you can type in a specific value. Quick Look button. Having your code first and foremost in front of you can also be the best way to work through a problem—you can minimize the debug area and debug navigator to use the source editor as the debugging interface. Detects undefined behavior at runtime. Note: For both of these View Memory modes, return to the source listing by pressing the back button, by choosing the stack frame in the debug bar’s jump bar, by clicking on the stack frame in the debug navigator, or by clicking the breakpoint in the breakpoint navigator. To read a full discussion of using the Xcode debugger to debug a view hierarchy, see Debugging View Hierarchies in the next chapter, Specialized Debugging Workflows. The variable view can display both variables and registers. Click to investigate the relationship of view objects both in a 3D rendering and in a hierarchical list in the debug navigator. The Debug menu provides convenient keyboard stepping commands for use when you pause your app and analyze what happens line by line. You can suspend the execution of your app by clicking the Pause button, which toggles between to pause and to continue. When you finish a session and rerun the app, the console is cleared. For example, the following illustration shows a datatip open on the pathRenderer variable, outlined at the point of the popup window with a dotted rectangle. Finds memory corruptions and other memory errors at run time. Console output persists throughout a debugging session, you can see a listing of outputs created for the entire session. The most commonly used breakpoint is file and line dependent: After you create and enable a file and line breakpoint, your app pauses every time it encounters that location in the code. The presence of hidden symbols is indicated by a dotted line in the stack frame. For a basic introduction to LLDB, see LLDB Quick Start Guide. Datatips. Using the Xcode debugger, you can inspect the view hierarchy in detail, using a hierarchical listing of view objects, an exploded 3D rendering of your app’s view hierarchy, and inspectors for object attributes and sizing. See Debugging the View Hierarchy for more information. 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