I have a crash in a third party component. It is clear that there is an underlying cause for this which I have to research. But to make this more robust in the meantime I want to surround the crashing call with a @try @catch
block.
I could not reproduce the crash so far so I can't really tell if the @try @catch
will work in this case. My question in what type of cases does @try
and @catch
generally work.
Hardware Model: iPhone3,1
Process: MyApp [2084]
Path: /var/mobile/Applications/8B400A7D-88E7-4319-9C5D-F7E72DE8D960/MyApp.app/MyApp
Identifier: com.company.MyApp-Snapshot
Version: 7.2
Code Type: ARM
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2012-09-07 14:04:14 +0000
OS Version: iPhone OS 5.1.1 (9B206)
Report Version: 104
Exception Type: SIGSEGV
Exception Codes: SEGV_ACCERR at 0xe1088602
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x35260f78 objc_msgSend + 15
1 UIKit 0x312363d7 -[UIView(Hierarchy) superview] + 50
*************************************************************************** |<---- UIView *superview = self.superview;
2 MyApp 0x000238f9 -[MBProgressHUD deviceOrientationDidChange:] (MBProgressHUD.m:622)
***************************************************************************
3 Foundation 0x37dc64ff __57-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:]_block_invoke_0 + 18
4 CoreFoundation 0x3752d547 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke_0 + 70
5 CoreFoundation 0x374b9097 _CFXNotificationPost + 1406
6 Foundation 0x37d3a3eb -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 66
7 UIKit 0x3123adeb -[UIDevice setOrientation:animated:] + 214
8 UIKit 0x3123616f -[UIApplication handleEvent:withNewEvent:] + 2718
9 UIKit 0x31235567 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 54
10 UIKit 0x31234f3b _UIApplicationHandleEvent + 5826
11 GraphicsServices 0x33c7722b PurpleEventCallback + 882
12 CoreFoundation 0x37535523 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 38
13 CoreFoundation 0x375354c5 __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 140
14 CoreFoundation 0x37534313 __CFRunLoopRun + 1370
15 CoreFoundation 0x374b74a5 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 300
16 CoreFoundation 0x374b736d CFRunLoopRunInMode + 104
17 GraphicsServices 0x33c76439 GSEventRunModal + 136
18 UIKit 0x31263cd5 UIApplicationMain + 1080
19 MyApp 0x00003643 main (main.m:16)
Update: Apparently SIGSEGV
is not an exception that you can catch but caused by accessing memory which is not valid. From my perspective it would still be convenient to be able to catch this sort of exception, although getting the root of the problem was obviously the better approach to fix the problem.