Property Declaration and Automatic Backing Storage Allocation

Question

I\'m trying to understand Objective-C properties and I have some lingering questions about their syntax.

What is the difference between explicitly declaring an ivar

Answer 1

With the modern runtime they are the same (as already mentioned) except for the fact that the ivars that are not explicitly defined like in MyObject1 will not show up in the debugger when you view variables or hover the mouse over variables, you have to print out the variable values or set the summary of the variable in the variables view to display the properties.

I started using the MyObject2 way of doing things because of typing less but it is more annoying having to type in the gdb command line to view the variable state in the debugger :(