Question

I am running Xcode and I would like to dump out a NSData*. The variable in question is buffer. Is there a way to do this through the UI or the GDB debugger?

Edit

I’ve moved my notes into an answer.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, none of the suggestions so far solved the problem of actually being able to quickly display the data inside NSData.

I wrote a simple method that works the way I need it to. From the GDB window, I can type in print [Util dumpData:theData] and I will get nice, formatted output.

+(void) dumpData:(NSData *)data
{
    unsigned char* bytes = (unsigned char*) [data bytes];

    for(int i=0;i< [data length];i++)
    {
        NSString* op = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d:%X",i,bytes[i],nil];
        NSLog(@"%@", op);
    }
}

NsLog Output

0:24
1:0
2:4
3:0
4:0
5:0