iOS Chatty Error Messages in Core Foundation?

[ArtOfWarfare]

I just ran into this rather... interesting... error message:

*** -[__NSCFCalendar ordinalityOfUnit:inUnit:forDate:]: date cannot be nil
I mean really, what do you think that operation is supposed to mean with a nil date?
An exception has been avoided for now.
A few of these errors are going to be reported with this complaint, then further violations will simply silently do whatever random thing results from the nil.
Here is the backtrace where this occurred this time (some frames may be missing due to compiler optimizations):

I can't tell if that's an Easter Egg or... does anyone not think it seems weirdly chatty?

 

[dantastic]

Aaaah, passive aggressive logging. Loving it!

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Aaaah, passive aggressive logging. Loving it!

I agree. I always write weird error messages and alerts. Still, I find it unusual for something from Core Foundation.

 

[dantastic]

The odd thing is bound to slip through to production. The real gold mine for passive aggression is within the comments though. You'd be surprised at what can hide in the comments in even enterprise software

Long running funny example http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

It's the linux kernel swear word counter.

 

[truehybridx]

There are definately some interesting messages

Take iTunes here

iTunes: AMDeviceConnect (thread 0x118fba000): This is not the droid you're looking for (is actually com.apple.mobile.restored). Move along, move along.