2 posts tagged ‘Debugging’
On-Crash Backtraces in Swift
mjtsai,
Alastair Houghton: Prior to Swift 5.9, all you would get when your program fails is a message from the parent process (often the shell) telling you that the child process crashed[…] […] Now, instead of the opaque message above, the result looks something like this[…] […] This new feature greatly improves the on-crash debugging experience […]
What Happened to __crashreporter_info__?
Seth Willits (in 2022): The new “ips” crash reports in macOS do not contain assert() information!(Assertion failed: (myVar != nil), function fooBarTest(), file code.m, line 100)Problematic because symbolication is often finicky, so it takes a LOT more work to find which assert() failed.[…]I don’t know whether it’s the “log” that’s to blame or that the […]