Xcode Debugging not showing values

Question

I'm completely stumped. I've been debugging for over a year and have only had this problem when the Build Configuration was set to Release. I have the Build Configuration set to Debug and I have checked to be sure I am attaching to the correct process and yet I still cannot see the values while stepping through the code. Has anybody else ran into this issue?

Here is a screen shot:

The value is returning, but I am unable to see the values of ANYTHING in this method or any of the other methods and I cannot figure out why.

Thank you for any hints you can give me.

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I've tried to print out the valued and this is the output I receive:

Notice though, that the value in the Variables view is correct for the result, even though I can't print it out. But the other values, like filePath should not be nil.

This is so weird.

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I put the breakpoint on the return statement and still no luck:

This time I see no value for result:

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue, On mouse hover and watch section for every variable it was showing nil value but while NSLog for those variables it was printing correct value.

now it's fixed. Try this

Go to Product menu > Scheme > Edit scheme or ⌘+<

In Run go to Info tab, change the build configuration to "debug". Hope it will work.

Answer 2

@Lucy, ideally you shouldn't have to run in Release profile when debugging, Release is meant as an App Distribution profile with a small package size and little / no debug symbols.

But if you must debug on Release (e.g. due to Environment, data reasons), make sure you have the Optimization Level set to 'None' for Release.

You can reach the config above through:

1) Project wide settings - affects all Targets

2) Target specific setting - affects a single Target only

Don't forget to switch this back before App Store distribution. Lower Optimization will generate a larger ipk increasing your users' download time - also the potential dSYM generated.

Background

For context, Debug, Adhoc or Release profiles are purely to id different build configurations that XCode ships with. XCode starts projects with a Debug profile with no Optimization (and various other predefined config related to development & debugging), so symbol loading by the interpreter is possible - you're free to tweak this however you wish.

Theoretically able to establish a Release build profile that's identical to Debug.