Break on EXC_BAD_ACCESS in Xcode?

Question

I\'m new to iPhone development and Xcode in general and have no idea how to begin troubleshooting an EXC_BAD_ACCESS signal. How can I get Xcode to break at the

Answer 1

From the Stanford CS193P classes: if you add a breakpoint (manually, by editing breakpoints) for the symbolobjc_exception_throw you can get a much better picture of what went wrong - letting things proceed to the point where the debugger halts by itself tends to obscure things and screw up the stack trace. When you halt in objc_exception_throw you can often look back to exactly what access/operation caused your problem.