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How can you find the name/identifier of a released object that's getting messages sent to it?

I did the thing in Instruments that shows info about the object that was sent a message, but memory addresses are less than useful compared the actual name of the variable. Is there a way to find out what it's identifier was?

Solution

  • Try adding symbolic breakpoints such as:

    [NSException raise]
objc_exception_throw
malloc_error_break

    Also try enabling NSZombies and you should be able to see the line of code that calls the release on the deallocated instance.