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What do the symbols that are at the left in the Debug Area from the XCode mean? i, A, L, E, etc...
I was looking for that information in the Apple docs (here and here, basicly), but could not find it.
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Debug Symbols are additional information about your source code that are used to help debugging. See also this wikipedia article about debug symbols. They will not be submitted to the appstore as they are only part of debug-build while you only submit a release-build to the appstore.
symbols files are generated when you submit machine code instead of bitcode to the App Store. They are used as part of the mechanism used to deliver symbolicated crash reports to your Xcode Organizer. They are lighter weight than the complete .
A debug symbol is a special kind of symbol that attaches additional information to the symbol table of an object file, such as a shared library or an executable.
The “Debug executable” checkbox specifies whether or not you want to run with the debugger enabled. Once running, you can use Debug > Attach to Process on a process that has been launched with debugging disabled if needed. It seems like all this does is start your app with the debugger attached.
I could only find a list of the variable types from Ken Orr's "Debugging with Xcode" WWDC 2012 presentation slides (Session 412). You may, or may not, have access to these slides.
Note: I cannot be more specific about the different colours of the 'V' variables as I am colour-blind. Boo hoo, poor me. Perhaps you can tell me?
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Apple developers must have added it to the docs after this question was asked, as it is in the docs
There are actually only 6 labels, L, A, S, V, R, E, where V is shared between Global and instance variables. At least now, they are exactly the same colour.
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