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What is the current behavior?

os_log silently truncates long messages with <…> at about 1 KB. console.error is logged at the default level, so log readers can't tell errors apart.

What is the new behavior?

• Messages are split into chunks of at most 900 bytes (LogChunks.h), cut at line breaks when possible and never inside a UTF-8 sequence. The console prefix is repeated on every chunk.
• console.error and failed assertions use OS_LOG_TYPE_ERROR.
• When the CLI writes logChunkMarkers to the app's package.json and stdout is /dev/null, each chunk ends with an invisible marker (U+2060 to join, U+2061 for a line break) that lets the CLI rebuild the original message.

The key and the stdout check keep markers away from readers that wouldn't strip them: syslog_relay prints them as visible text. Older CLIs never write the key, and an attached console fails the stdout check. Older CLIs and Xcode see plain split lines.

The runtime is prebuilt through SwiftPM, so a build setting can't reach it, and adding a build setting would relink. A package.json key costs only a re-sign.

Testing

A demo app logged 11 messages (up to 100 KB, emoji, 800 lines, console.error, objects), compared exactly against the expected text on both launches of each run:

Setup	Simulator (iOS 26.2)	iPad (iPadOS 26.7)
New CLI, default / --log debug / --log trace	11/11	11/11
Published CLI 9.1.1	no markers, nothing lost, long messages stay split	same

Also confirmed with simctl launch --console-pty: markers stay off with a console attached. Launching from Xcode itself wasn't tested.

Known limit: in a probe with three threads logging while another logged 2 MB, about a third of the threads' chunks never reached the stream. Chunks aren't numbered, so the stitched message has a silent gap. Without the 2 MB burst, the same threads came through intact.

Part of a stack

1. fix(build): stop forcing a relink on every incremental build #529
2. This PR

Next: #532. The CLI side is NativeScript/nativescript-cli#6179.

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• Logging
  • Console messages and failed assertions are sent to the operating system’s logging service when available; errors are marked with error severity.
  • Long log messages are split into smaller chunks while preserving UTF-8 characters. When enabled in app configuration, markers indicate whether chunks continue the same line or start a new one.
  • When operating system logging is unavailable, messages continue to use the existing logging path.

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The runtime adds a log chunking API and routes formatted messages through chunked OS logging. Chunk markers depend on app configuration and stdout. Console messages use OS logging with error severity for errors and failed assertions. Non-OS-logging paths remain available.

Changes: Runtime logging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Log chunking contract NativeScript/runtime/LogChunks.h, v8ios.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	Adds a 900-byte recommended chunk size, break types, invisible markers, and ForEachLogChunk. The function prefers newline breaks and otherwise splits at UTF-8 boundaries. The Xcode project registers the header.
OS logging chunk writer NativeScript/runtime/Helpers.h, NativeScript/runtime/Helpers.mm	Formatted Objective-C and C messages use a chunked OS-log writer. The writer can append break markers. Marker use is enabled when logChunkMarkers is truthy and stdout refers to /dev/null; it is disabled when the application path is empty. Non-OS-logging fallbacks are unchanged.
Console severity routing NativeScript/runtime/Console.cpp	A shared helper sends console messages to OS logging when enabled. It uses error severity for errors and failed assertions, and preserves the formatted level prefix for regular console messages.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FormatPath
  participant TNS_WriteToOsLog
  participant ShouldMarkLogChunks
  participant ForEachLogChunk
  participant os_log
  FormatPath->>TNS_WriteToOsLog: formatted message and prefix
  TNS_WriteToOsLog->>ShouldMarkLogChunks: check marker setting
  ShouldMarkLogChunks-->>TNS_WriteToOsLog: marker enabled or disabled
  TNS_WriteToOsLog->>ForEachLogChunk: message and chunk limit
  loop Each chunk
    ForEachLogChunk-->>TNS_WriteToOsLog: chunk and break type
    TNS_WriteToOsLog->>os_log: prefixed chunk and optional marker
  end

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