[Libfoundation-users] Debugging Retain Cycles

[Sven C. K. <sc...@sn...>]

Hi,

I am looking for best practices to debug retain cycles.  So far, I
tried to track them down by reading source, which can be very frustrating
when there is a lot of source code; another try was to read lF's internal
data structures (in a category of e.g. NSAutoreleasePool), and to search
those objects that are part of the cycle--unfortunately, it turned out
that lF does not know from where objects were retained (correct me if I am
wrong).

My next idea would be to somehow wrap NSObject's retain (either on the
source code or on the linker level), and to log the information I
need.  But before I do this, I'd just like to know whether there are
better ways.

Thanks in advance,

Sven Koehler