Breaking into the debugger on iPhone

Question

For assert macros in my iPhone project, I\'m looking for a way to programmatically break into the debugger. On Windows (MSVC++), I can use __debugbreak() for this purpose. I

Answer 1

I just set a breakpoint at the place I want to stop. Xcode remembers breakpoints persistently, so any time I run the app with gdb, it'll stop at that point.

If you want to break on assertion failures, a good place to set a breakpoint is on the function objc_exception_throw, in the Objective-C runtime, which is what actually throws an exception. Use the Run > Show > Breakpoints window and double-click the "Double-click for symbol" row, then type the name.