/* NSDebug.h Copyright (c) 1994-2012, Apple Inc. All rights reserved. */ /************************************************************************** WARNING: Unsupported API. This module contains material that is only partially supported -- if at all. Do not depend on the existance of any of these symbols in your code in future releases of this software. Certainly, do not depend on the symbols in this header in production code. The format of any data produced by the functions in this header may also change at any time. However, it should be noted that the features (but not necessarily the exact implementation) in this file have been found to be generally useful, and in some cases invaluable, and are not likely to go away anytime soon. **************************************************************************/ #import #import /* The environment component of this API The boolean- and integer-valued variables declared in this header, plus some values set by methods, read starting values from the process's environment at process startup. This is mostly a benefit if you need to initialize these variables to some non-default value before your program's main() routine gets control, but it also allows you to change the value without modifying your program's source. The initialization from the environment happens very early, but may not have happened yet at the time of a +load method statically linked into an application (as opposed to one in a dynamically loaded module). But as noted in the "Foundation Release Notes", +load methods that are statically linked into an application are tricky to use and are not recommended. Here is a table of the variables/values initialized from the environment at startup. Some of these just set variables, others call methods to set the values. NAME OF ENV. VARIABLE DEFAULT SET TO... NSDebugEnabled NO "YES" NSZombieEnabled NO "YES" NSDeallocateZombies NO "YES" */ /**************** General ****************/ FOUNDATION_EXPORT BOOL NSDebugEnabled; // General-purpose global boolean. Applications and frameworks // may choose to do some extra checking, or use different // algorithms, or log informational messages, or whatever, if // this variable is true (ex: if (NSDebugEnabled) { ... }). FOUNDATION_EXPORT BOOL NSZombieEnabled; // Enable object zombies. When an object is deallocated, its isa // pointer is modified to be that of a "zombie" class (whether or // not the storage is then freed can be controlled by the // NSDeallocateZombies variable). Messages sent to the zombie // object cause logged messages and can be broken on in a debugger. // The default is NO. Note that changing this variable's value // has no effect. FOUNDATION_EXPORT BOOL NSDeallocateZombies; // Determines whether the storage of objects that have been // "zombified" is then freed or not. The default value (NO) // is most suitable for debugging messages sent to zombie // objects. And since the memory is never freed, storage // allocated to an object will never be reused, either (which // is sometimes useful otherwise). Note that changing this // variable's value has no effect. FOUNDATION_EXPORT BOOL NSIsFreedObject(id anObject); // Returns YES if the value passed as the parameter is a pointer // to a freed object. Note that memory allocation packages will // eventually reuse freed memory blocks to satisfy a request. // NSZombieEnabled and NSDeallocateZombies can be used to prevent // reuse of allocated objects. /**************** Stack processing ****************/ FOUNDATION_EXPORT void *NSFrameAddress(NSUInteger frame); FOUNDATION_EXPORT void *NSReturnAddress(NSUInteger frame); // Returns the value of the frame pointer or return address, // respectively, of the specified frame. Frames are numbered // sequentially, with the "current" frame being zero, the // previous frame being 1, etc. The current frame is the // frame in which either of these functions is called. For // example, NSReturnAddress(0) returns an address near where // this function was called, NSReturnAddress(1) returns the // address to which control will return when current frame // exits, etc. If the requested frame does not exist, then // NULL is returned. The behavior of these functions is // undefined in the presence of code which has been compiled // without frame pointers. FOUNDATION_EXPORT NSUInteger NSCountFrames(void); // Returns the number of call frames on the stack. The behavior // of this functions is undefined in the presence of code which // has been compiled without frame pointers. /**************** Autorelease pool debugging ****************/ // Functions used as interesting breakpoints in a debugger // void __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(void *object); // Called to log the "Object X of class Y autoreleased with no // pool in place - just leaking" message. If an environment // variable named "NSAutoreleaseHaltOnNoPool" is set with string // value "YES", the function will automatically break in the // debugger (or terminate the process). // void __NSAutoreleaseFreedObject(void *freedObject); // Called when a previously freed object would be released // by an autorelease pool. If an environment variable named // "NSAutoreleaseHaltOnFreedObject" is set with string value // "YES", the function will automatically break in the debugger // (or terminate the process). @interface NSAutoreleasePool (NSAutoreleasePoolDebugging) + (void)showPools; // Displays to stderr the state of the current thread's // autorelease pool stack. /* DTrace static probes for autorelease pool performance analysis and debugging provider Cocoa_Autorelease { probe pool_push(unsigned long value); // arg is a token representing pool probe pool_pop_start(unsigned long value); // arg is a token representing pool probe pool_pop_end(unsigned long value); // arg is a token representing pool probe autorelease(unsigned long value); // arg is object pointer probe error_no_pool(unsigned long value); // arg is object pointer probe error_freed_object(unsigned long value); // arg is object pointer }; */ @end /**************** Allocation statistics ****************/ // The statistics-keeping facilities generate output on various types of // events. Currently, output logs can be generated for use of the zone // allocation functions (NSZoneMalloc(), etc.), and allocation and // deallocation of objects (and other types of lifetime-related events). // This boolean is obsolete and unused; don't use this. FOUNDATION_EXPORT BOOL NSKeepAllocationStatistics; // Object allocation event types #define NSObjectAutoreleasedEvent 3 #define NSObjectExtraRefIncrementedEvent 4 #define NSObjectExtraRefDecrementedEvent 5 #define NSObjectInternalRefIncrementedEvent 6 #define NSObjectInternalRefDecrementedEvent 7 FOUNDATION_EXPORT void NSRecordAllocationEvent(int eventType, id object); // Notes an object or zone allocation event and various other // statistics, such as the time and current thread. // The behavior is undefined (and likely catastrophic) if // the correct arguments for 'eventType' are not provided. // // The parameter prototypes for each event type are shown below. // NSRecordAllocationEvent(NSObjectAutoreleasedEvent, curObj) // NSRecordAllocationEvent(NSObjectExtraRefIncrementedEvent, curObj) // NSRecordAllocationEvent(NSObjectExtraRefDecrementedEvent, curObj) // NSRecordAllocationEvent(NSObjectInternalRefIncrementedEvent, curObj) // NSRecordAllocationEvent(NSObjectInternalRefDecrementedEvent, curObj) // // Only the Foundation should have reason to use many of these. // The only common use of this function should be with these two events: // NSObjectInternalRefIncrementedEvent // NSObjectInternalRefDecrementedEvent // when a class overrides -retain and -release to do its own // reference counting.