On Feb 5, 2011, at 6:37 PM, John Bartleson wrote: > Let me make one final point: this topic would have never come up if I had had > a tool that would let me track the > lifetime of an object. Very hypothetically, suppose I could write my code, > execute it, and then, in the debugger or > whatever, could issue a command like "Track someObjectName". During > execution, I'd see the following: > > (timestamp) (code location) someObjectName: allocated > (timestamp) (code location) someObjectName: init > (timestamp) (code location) someObjectName: retained > (timestamp) (code location) someObjectName: released > (timestamp) (code location) someObjectName: released > (timestamp) (code location) someObjectName: dealloc > > II realize that a tool like this appears to be against your stated > philosophy, Graham, but it sure would > have saved me and the Cocoa list a lot of time and frustration.
This is precisely what you can do (among with many other things) using the Instruments tool, included with Xcode. Charles_______________________________________________ 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
