apple-debugging

Drive LLDB and Xcode to find the cause of a bug fast: stop in the right place, look at real state, change it live, and prove a fix before touching the code. Rebuilding is the last resort, not the first move. Once the live experiment confirms the cause, fix the source and verify it in a clean run without the injected behavior.

Debugging loop: run, break, inspect, change, repeat. Every reference below serves one step of that loop.

Debugging process: