Why doesn't NSString always display its text in Xcode debugger?

Question

It seems completely arbitrary, sometimes NSString will appear fine in the debugger:

 myStr  NSString *  0x0000000104e00040 @"Hello"

other times just:

myStr   NSString *  0x0000000104e00040

There's no problem with the NSStrings, just how they appear in the debugger. Are there any factors that influence this?

Answer 1

it is a bug in the IDE I think, I don't think there's anything we can do about it.

maybe the stack depth influences that... but thats guesswork.

a po MyStr in the console always works fine :)