Getting strange debugger message: Assertion failed: (cls), function getName: what is this?

Question

Since I upgraded from Xcode 3.2.3 to 3.2.4 and iOS 4.0.1 to iOS 4.1 SDK, when I set a breakpoint in my code and single-step over instructions, at each step, the debugger will spit one or more of that line:

Assertion failed: (cls), function getName, file /SourceCache/objc4_Sim/objc4-427.1.1/runtime/objc-runtime-new.m, line 3939

It doesn't happen on a specific line or for a specific instructions. I have a few breakpoints in my code and each time I hit one of those, the debugger starts spewing those messages. It doesn't seem to have any detrimental effect as the program works correctly. It's just very annoying to retrieve the information in the console when there are tens of those lines. I'm sure they're not displayed for nothing but I haven't found what the problem might be and what instruction might cause it. If I don't hit a breakpoint, then I don't see any of those lines. I did clean and rebuild my project multiple times to no avail.

Does anybody have any idea what this is?

Answer 1

I ran into this - and here's the reason mine happened: I had used +localizedStringFromDate:dateStyle:timeStyle: in my code. Worked fine on the iPhone, but it's not available pre-4.0 SDK, so it coughed on the iPad. See if you're calling some routine that's either no longer available in the SDK, or available only in later versions. Frankly, I can't wait for 4.1 on the iPad!

-Owen

Answer 2

I'm also having this problem, in an iPad app originally written in Xcode 3.2.4 using the iOS 3.2 SDK, now being debugged in Xcode 3.2.5 using the 4.2 SDK, but only when I set the simulator to the 3.2 iOS Deployment Target (so I can run in the 3.2 simulator). Every stop at a breakpoint in the debugger, I get this assert repeated eight times. Single-stepping over a line gets two more.

What I can't understand is I haven't added any code to the project since I last run it in Xcode 3.2.4 and iOS SDK 3.2, so I can't have added any calls that were not present in that SDK or else it wouldn't have compiled.

Until someone finds an answer to this, I think the only workaround (so I can continue debugging my code in a 3.2 environment) is to reinstall Xcode 3.2.4 and use the 3.2 SDK and simulator.