“self” not available in debugger on iOS 5.1

Question

I\'m trying to debug a problem running under iOS 5.1 and when I stop in the debugger inside the code that gets the error and try to print something with the debugger I get t

Answer 1

In Build Settings, setting Precompile Prefix Header to NO fixed it for me.

Answer 2

It was happening the same to me with Xcode 5 and iOS 6.1 development.

I was compiling in Release mode, if someone has this problem again check that you compile on Debug mode.

Answer 3

This is a debugger bug (Yeah, imagine that!)

Simply restart XCode, and it shouldn't be a problem for you anymore :)

EDIT:

Psyche! I was thinking of something else.

You're creating a retain cycle, and as of now, the debugger classifies this specific retain cycle this way (As I said, a bug).

To fix this, create a weak copy of self:

__weak __typeof(self)weakSelf = self;

Then for the self that's giving you trouble:

Change self.object to weakSelf.object