Question

My application crashes at various points while running, and result with the following error, in the same point in the code. My research indicates that this is a memory issue, but I am not sure why. I am not an app developer (rather a web developer), who has a decent understanding of Objective-C. I did not build this application either (Long Story).

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, nil);        //Crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS
    [pool release];
    return retVal;
}

I know it is probably tough without knowing the rest of the application, but can anyone point me in the right direction as to what could cause this, or how I may begin to debug it?

NOTE: The application was not throwing this error until I fixed some memory leak issues. Not sure if that helps.

Answer 1

The right direction is to use Instruments (comes with Xcode in the /Developer/Applications folder). If it’s an EXC_BAD_ACCESS, your best bet is the Zombies instrument.