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.
> 
> -- 
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