What commands are valid in “console pane” of Mac's “Instruments” app? (E.g., in Instrument)-Collection of common programming errors

I’m running the Mac OS “Instruments” app, using the “Leaks Instrument” to monitor an iPhone app. The major pane is titled “Leaked Blocks”, but if you click on that you get a choice of three: “Leaked Blocks”, “Call Tree”, and “Console”. Click on “Console”.

You now have a blank pane … click in it and hit . In my case, I get:

foo (4259) >

which is my app name and, presumably, the PID it’s running as.

I can enter commands/text (e.g., ls, help, exit) … they get echoed after awhile but nothing else happens.

I.e., it looks like a command prompt, but I can’t figure out what kinds of commands I can give it here! Doesn’t seem to accept gdb commands, nor “help”. Can’t find a mention of this feature in Apple’s documents.

Note that if I select a different instrument, e.g. “Allocations”, it also has the same console pane … with the same “no effect” when I enter text.

I’m hoping that whatever commands it has are (a) interesting, and (b) useful to me in debugging a memory leak.

thanks, Stan [email protected]