UPDATE: there is a follow up on this topic.
UPDATE2: there is a follow up on this topic.

libgdx developers got concerned about crashes in ios12 beta and there is an issue about it. I was not able to reproduce it using steps provided by Eric Nondahl as was trying to reproduce it on empty iOS system, and following actions helped much:

• switching to other apps will help;
• it is better other apps to be OGL ones;

These steps resulted in reproducing Eric’s POC. But POC) is quite verbose as packed with different cases:

It a follow up of old story. This case hit me back again. This time during a work on keychain utils for linux/windows port. In general this happens in following code:

PKCS12PfxPduBuilder builder = new PKCS12PfxPduBuilder();
...
PKCS12MacCalculatorBuilder macBuilder = new JcePKCS12MacCalculatorBuilder();
PKCS12PfxPdu pfx = builder.build(macBuilder, "".toCharArray());

and the reason in following:

Just have migrated from Mac Mini to MacPro (4 core xeon model mid 2012) to double number of horses. Just swapped SSD from MacMini into MacPro and it is up and running. Build is almost twice faster now, everything seems to be ok but IntelliJ Idea started working extremely slow. Reinstall OS from scratch but it is pure 1 day wasting. It seemed to me that there is no acceleration enabled and reason is not known for me. Probably switch from Intel GPU to ATI might affect existing system setup. Did find that apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true system properties shall enable Quartz acceleration in Java as it is off by default (?). Quick test in Idea and it solves everything !
To add it:

• open Help->Edit Custom VM Options
• add -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true line there
  my working custom options looks like bellow now:

-Xms128m
-Xmx1750m
-XX:ErrorFile=$USER_HOME/java_error_in_idea_%p.log
-XX:HeapDumpPath=$USER_HOME/java_error_in_idea.hprof
-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true

Keep working on Keychain utility for linux-windows port, generating the code signing request for particular. And was surprised that openssl was not able to load it CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest built by Apple:

$ openssl req -text -noout -verify -in CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest
unable to load X509 request
140735602271176:error:0D07209B:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_get_object:too long:/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/libressl/libressl-22.50.2/libressl/crypto/asn1/asn1_lib.c:143:
... other complains ...
140735602271176:error:0906700D:PEM routines:PEM_ASN1_read_bio:ASN1 lib:/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/libressl/libressl-22.50.2/libressl/crypto/pem/pem_oth.c:84:

Apple uses different format ? No, it just writes broken ASN.1 stream. Details bellow:

This post continues series of debugger rework, refer to previous post. In general rework is almost complete and changes are being tested now.
Beside variable resolution problem debug of kotlin code suffered from another issue: debugger was jumping random lines when step over collection iteration with lambdas. Why this was happening is bellow:

History Cannot Use Step Filters while Debugging in Eclipse #309
Fix PR315

Eclipse plugin is on low priority and it debugger there was working on simple cases year ago I was checking. Simple debug session discovered the bug in Event request validation.

Root case

Problem case there was validation of EXCEPTION_ONLY.referenceTypeID event modifier against list of known to debugger ones, but there is case when it can be zero:

Have completed most of code rework responsible for debug information preparation for debugger and frame local variable resolution during debug.

Reasons for this:

• there is no direct link between Java variable and local variable begin generated in LLVM IR code. Previous implementation expect one local per variable. Some times it is not true;
• Soot performs split of local variable into multiple at each assignment and not always it is not always possible to pack them back, as result same java variable could be represented different memory location (at different part of code);
• previous implementation was resolving variables base on line number (of code and variable visibility). All this cause broken in case of multi statements lines;
• sometimes compilers put broken debug information in class file (e.g. kotlin) as result it is not valid source for decisions.

What was changed:

Details will be provided in separate post but some facts are bellow:

Spoiler: because Apple uses Penguins to review application in Antarctica! (or just set region to Antarctica)

PR311. Kees van Dieren tried to release app to Apple with RoboVM 2.3.4 and it got rejected. It was crashing due NPE at following:

public DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale locale) {
...
    try {
        currency = Currency.getInstance(locale);
        currencySymbol = currency.getSymbol(locale); // <== here
        intlCurrencySymbol = currency.getCurrencyCode();
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
...
    }
}

Currency.getInstance() can return null as per spec for countries without currencies, such as Antarctica. Currently icu.dat that is embedded in RoboVM has two counties with XXX currency: AQ, CP.
The fix is simple, to use no currency currency object with code XXX in this case:

--- compiler/rt/libcore/luni/src/main/java/java/text/DecimalFormatSymbols.java	(date 1529655383000)
+++ compiler/rt/libcore/luni/src/main/java/java/text/DecimalFormatSymbols.java	(date 1529660632000)
@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@
         this.locale = locale;
         try {
             currency = Currency.getInstance(locale);
+            if (currency == null) {
+                // dkimitsa: for some countries there is no currecy like Antarctida AQ so pick currency
+                // directcly by no currency code
+                currency = Currency.getInstance("XXX");
+            }
             currencySymbol = currency.getSymbol(locale);
             intlCurrencySymbol = currency.getCurrencyCode();
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {

PR310
Time to start 2.3.5 with fix. Fix to own code that was intended to fix auto-signature pickup (PR293). It fixes a lot of stuff but introduced bug, that auto mode was picking distribution configuration (identity and profile). This will not work for debug/run configuration case. Fix is simple: consider only development identities:

--- Pair<SigningIdentity, ProvisioningProfile> pair = ProvisioningProfile.find(ProvisioningProfile.list(), SigningIdentity.list(), bundleId);
+++ Pair<SigningIdentity, ProvisioningProfile> pair = ProvisioningProfile.find(ProvisioningProfile.list(), SigningIdentity.list("/(?i)iPhone Developer|iOS Development/"), bundleId);

It took a while for this release, compiler and gradle plugging is already on Maven and plugins will be available soon for download.

• What’s new
  • Added support for ‘App Extensions’: still can’t create one with RoboVM but allows to use existing one (PR255)
  • Framework target was improved that allows writing framework out of box without need of native coding (PR253)
  • regenerated embedded icu51.dat to fix crashes on several locales (PR227)
  • Enabling Maven debug options (#254, PR258)
  • ios11.3 (PR280) and ios11.4 (PR299) bindings
  • Resurrect junit support (PR281)
  • Gradle pluggin maintaince: support for debugger, dependency to build, clean cache etc (PR292)
• bugfixes
  • CBAdvertisementData cannot be instantiated](#224)
  • RoboVM doesn’t strips all simulator archs from dynamic framework which causes ITMS-90087 during submission (#228, PR229)
  • IB integrator generates wrong class name for empty @CustomClass, doesn’t support structs in IBInspectable (#230, PR231)
  • debugger: fixed debugger crash when resolving stack variables on arm64 (#239, PR240)
  • robovm doesn’t copies all swift libraries (#244, PR245)
  • InterfaceBuilderClassesPlugin complains on missing classes in xib but they are not (#246, PR247)
  • Debugger hangs when evaluating native objects that has no corresponding Java class loaded (PR256)
  • Debugger - broken step over and crashed when using lambda (PR257)
  • robovm + idea: wrong simulator version is launched than selected in run configuration (#262, PR263)
  • added flush as Unhandled exception will not be directed to NSLog otherwise (PR267)
  • Gradle: Unable to start 12.5 inch iPad simulator (#233, PR273)
  • dSYM generation heavily delayed on XCode 9.3 (#279, PR282)
  • IDEA: Install failure disables run button (#285, PR289)
  • Signing app ext and frameworks for Simulator: Apps won’t run on simulator if embedded frameworks are present (#286, PR289)
  • Fixed code sign auto signature/provisioning profile pickup (PR293)
  • Robovm compiler crashes with Kotlin modules when compiling for debug (#295, PR296)
  • fixed issue when breakpoint were not working in kotlin (PR297)
  • fix for “WARNING ITMS-90725: “SDK Version Issue (#302, PR301)
  • TLSv1.2 handshake fixed (#306, PR308)
• Useful tutorials
  • Tutorial: using app-extensions in RoboVM iOS application
  • Tutorial: writing Framework using improved framework target
  • Tutorial: Crash Reporters and java exceptions
  • Tutorial: Investigating silent crash of Release build (e.g. Port death watcher fired)
  • Tutorial: Interface Builder integration in RoboVM
  • Tutorial: using bro-gen to quick generate bindings