For some reason, sometimes my synthesized ivars show up in the debugger as ivars, and sometimes they don't. Can anyone explain this? I can't remember whether this is with GDB or LLDB.
On 2011-11-13, at 5:24 AM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > Explicitly declaring your ivars makes them easier to see in the > debugger. Otherwise you have to call the property accessor from gdb's > command line to look at it. > > I feel that it's helpful to declare them in any case, so I can > more-easily tell how much memory each of my objects is taking up by > looking at its list of ivars. > > Not every property is backed by the ivar it acts as asscessors for. > It's perfectly legal to implement custom accessors that do other > things than set or get instance variables. They could instead run > some sort of calculation, or set some other combination of ivars. > > -- > Don Quixote de la Mancha > Dulcinea Technologies Corporation > Software of Elegance and Beauty > http://www.dulcineatech.com > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dave.fernandes%40utoronto.ca > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
