On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Antonio Nunes <devli...@sintraworks.com> wrote: > On 20 Sep 2010, at 19:27, Seth Willits wrote: > >> And Chris explained that properties don't necessarily *have* ivars for you >> to look at anyway. If you want to see its value, then you need to run the >> print/po command on the gdb command line. > > Fair enough. And what I would like to see, is the debugger window in code > being smart enough to show the synthesised properties. Any chance of that > ever happening?
Did you mean "synthesized ivars"? It is important you be precise. Automatically showing synthesized properties—or any properties at all—would be a bad idea, because methods have side effects, and even calling simple accessors at the wrong time can be detrimental to your program (remember, the debugger can be stopped anywhere; what if it's in the middle of updating the method cache in objc_msgSend, and then you go up a few frames into your own code?). Automatically showing synthesized ivars is a much safer operation, and one I too would like to see in the debugger. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
