Printing Objective-C Invocations in LLDB
A while ago Facebook open-sourced Chisel, a collection of commands and functions to assist in debugging iOS apps in LLDB.
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There is one command that I find particularly fun and interesting yet haven’t had the chance to write about, until this post.
The command is pinvocation (for print invocation) which is most useful for debugging Objective-C methods in Apple’s code (or anything where you don’t have access to the source and thus symbols). pinvocation finds the values for self and _cmd, packages them up into an NSInvocation and then prints it all out for you, including the arguments.
It sounds like a wonderful idea, but I tried it with several applications and was not able to get it to work. I kept getting errors like:
error: error: 0 errors parsing expression error: The expression could not be prepared to run in the target
Currently, only 32-bit x86 (Mac and iOS simulator) is supported.
