XCode automatically deactivating breakpoints

Question

I\'m using xcode in C++. I\'m trying to debug my project, but at random intervals, it seems to ignore my breakpoints. There are three things that it does:

1) Sometimes,

Answer 1

Try unchecking the Load symbols lazy in the Debugging panel in Preferences

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Answer 2

I faced the same issue right now. I tried all the options : enabling the GCC, active, base targets and restarting and closing xcode, nothing solved. I finally restarted the simulator and things have started working.

Answer 3

Had the same problem but only restarting the iPhone Simulator seemed to fix it.

Answer 4

I have more or less the same set of issues, and this suggestion of loading symbols lazily unfortunately does not resolve it for me. Moreover, I am not developing for the iphone, just a regular application.

To be specific, sometimes I can't disable or enable breakpoints on the fly - sometimes my code doesn't stop in breakpoints which I later prove are being executed (with print statements) and nothing I can do will make it stop there - I see that very annoying debug symbol with an orange center, even though I only have one project active.

Quitting and restarting XCode occasionally has an effect - and annoyingly, there have been a very small number of cases where quitting and restarting or rebuilding from clean fixed hard-to-diagnose compilation/linking errors. Unfortunately, I just tried all of these with no effect.

(Unrelated, my keyboard shortcuts are also unreliable. My shortcut of F2 for continue worked for weeks for me, stopped working for a long time, was working this morning and now doesn't work at exactly the same breakpoint it worked before - yet my F1, step over, key has been completely reliable...)

I'm a little disappointed to have to do so much debugging with print statements!