Question

From times to times, while debugging an Application, I see this error on Xcode:

Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”.

and the debugger does not stop on the problematic line. In fact the debugger just shows me a page with a bunch assembly language code and that’s it.

I have to have paranormal powers to figure out where the exact problem is.

Is there a way to force Xcode to give me more “nutritive” error messages – that can detail the problem – and stop on the offending line when such errors occur?

thanks for any help.

Answer 1

You can enable NSZombies see here and I’ve found a good way to see where the actual problem is, is to run and debug the program with the debugger open.

This way when the program stops executing it more often then shows the line that was executing when the program crashed.