iPhone - debugging “pointer being freed was not allocated” errors

Question

When over freeing a pointer you may see an error such as

\"pointer being freed was not allocated\"

When debugging with the simulator, I add a build argument

Answer 1

You need to set the MallocStackLogging env variables on the target executable...

To access these settings, select your executable from the Groups & Files pane in XCode, then Get Info.

Go to the Arguments tab and add the following entries into the “Variables to be set in the environment” box: