The Leaks Instrument in Sonoma never reports any leaks. This is happening on Sonoma only. Instruments on Ventura reports the leaks appropriately.
This feels like a bug in Instruments on Sonoma, but I wanted to check in here to see if maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Steps to dupe:
- On a Sonoma machine, create a Mac OS Application Project in Xcode, using xibs and Objective-C.
- In the app delegate create a method:
- (IBAction)leak:(id)sender
{
NSLog(@"LEAK!");
int* ptr = ( int* )malloc( 5 * sizeof(int) );
}
- In the MainMenu.xib, create a button in the window and connect it to the
leak
action. - Build and Run.
- Launch Instruments and choose the Leaks tool.
- Attach Instruments to your running application and start recording.
- Click the Leak button in your app any number of times.
- Stop recording in Instruments.
RESULT: Instruments reports no leaks found.
WORKAROUND: To see leaks on Sonoma I can do so in the Terminal using leaks
with these steps:
- Launch Terminal
export MallocStackLogging=1
leaks -atExit -- /Users/zack/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Leaker-fkhkydpehobufngumikoydtpyxsc/Build/Products/Debug/Leaker.app/Contents/MacOS/Leaker
NOTE: this leaks command takes the path to the actual built binary.- The app will launch.
- Click the Leak button any number of times.
- Quit the app.
For example, clicking the Leak button 7 times, the leaks tool reports:
STACK OF 7 INSTANCES OF 'ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:]>':
19 dyld 0x183e39058 start + 2224
18 ZJ.Leaker 0x10207d12c main + 60 main.m:14
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x187a33708 NSApplicationMain + 880
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x187a5c460 -[NSApplication run] + 512
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x187e8f1bc -[NSApplication _handleEvent:] + 60
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x18823bc08 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 1556
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x187b9482c -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 284
12 com.apple.AppKit 0x187b94b6c -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 364
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c093b4 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 3472
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0a5e8 -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 448
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0b114 -[NSButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 488
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0b25c -[NSCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 144
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0b850 NSControlTrackMouse + 1480
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0e220 -[NSButtonCell _sendActionFrom:] + 88
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0e2fc -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] + 204
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0e3d4 __26-[NSCell _sendActionFrom:]_block_invoke + 100
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0e490 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] + 72
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x187c0e68c -[NSApplication(NSResponder) sendAction:to:from:] + 460
1 ZJ.Leaker 0x10207d2b8 -[AppDelegate leak:] + 88 AppDelegate.m:34
0 libsystem_malloc.dylib 0x183ff4ad0 _malloc_zone_malloc_instrumented_or_legacy + 276
====
7 (224 bytes) << TOTAL >>
1 (32 bytes) ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:] 0x600000ca5bc0> [32]
1 (32 bytes) ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:] 0x600000ca6e80> [32]
1 (32 bytes) ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:] 0x600000ca74a0> [32]
1 (32 bytes) ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:] 0x600000cb8520> [32]
1 (32 bytes) ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:] 0x600000cc0840> [32]
1 (32 bytes) ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:] 0x600000cc09a0> [32]
1 (32 bytes) ROOT LEAK: <malloc in -[AppDelegate leak:] 0x600000cc7a00> [32]
Hi!
We recently identified and resolved a bug where Instruments failed to report leaks. Can you try again with the copy of Instruments bundled with Xcode 15.1 beta 1 and let us know if it is still happening? From the release notes:
Fixed: Leaks instrument never detects leaks. (115440742)