If switch off address sanitizer build does not compile with error:
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"___ubsan_handle_sub_overflow", referenced from:
+[FIRMessagingPendingTopicsList pruneTopicBatches:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingPendingTopicsList.o)
-[FIRMessagingConnection willProcessProto:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingConnection.o)
-[FIRMessagingDelayedMessageQueue scheduleTimeoutInMillis:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingDelayedMessageQueue.o)
-[FIRMessagingDataMessageManager sendDelayedMessages:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingDataMessageManager.o)
"___ubsan_handle_divrem_overflow", referenced from:
_FIRMessagingGetFreeDiskSpaceInMB in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingUtilities.o)
"___ubsan_handle_add_overflow", referenced from:
_ReadRawVarInt32 in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingCodedInputStream.o)
-[FIRMessagingConnection willProcessProto:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingConnection.o)
-[FIRMessagingConnection willSendProto:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingConnection.o)
-[FIRMessagingDelayedMessageQueue queueMessage:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingDelayedMessageQueue.o)
-[FIRMessagingDataMessageManager handleExpirationForDataMessage:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingDataMessageManager.o)
+[FIRMessagingReceiver nextMessageID] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingReceiver.o)
-[FIRMessagingRmqManager loadInitialOutgoingPersistentId] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingRmqManager.o)
...
"___ubsan_handle_pointer_overflow", referenced from:
_ReadRawByte in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingCodedInputStream.o)
-[FIRMessagingSecureSocket performRead] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingSecureSocket.o)
"___ubsan_handle_float_cast_overflow", referenced from:
-[FIRMessaging setupSyncMessageManager] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessaging.o)
-[FIRMessagingDelayedMessageQueue calculateTimeoutInMillisWithDelayInSeconds:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingDelayedMessageQueue.o)
-[FIRMessagingClient retryConnectionImmediately:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingClient.o)
_FIRMessagingCurrentTimestampInSeconds in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingUtilities.o)
_FIRMessagingCurrentTimestampInMilliseconds in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingUtilities.o)
_FIRMessagingGetFreeDiskSpaceInMB in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingUtilities.o)
"___ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds", referenced from:
_ReadRawVarInt32 in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingCodedInputStream.o)
_LogicalRightShift32 in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingSecureSocket.o)
-[FIRMessagingClient nextRetryInterval] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingClient.o)
"___ubsan_handle_nonnull_arg", referenced from:
+[FIRApp registerAsConfigurable:] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
+[FIRApp readDataCollectionSwitchFromPlist] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
+[FIRConfiguration sharedInstance] in FirebaseCore(FIRConfiguration.o)
+[FIRAnalyticsConfiguration sharedInstance] in FirebaseCore(FIRAnalyticsConfiguration.o)
+[FIRComponentContainer registerAsComponentRegistrant:] in FirebaseCore(FIRComponentContainer.o)
_FIRLoggerInitializeASL in FirebaseCore(FIRLogger.o)
+[FIRMessaging messaging] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessaging.o)
...
"___ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value", referenced from:
-[FIRApp getTokenForcingRefresh:withCallback:] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp setDataCollectionDefaultEnabled:] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp isAppIDValid] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp alreadyOutputDataCollectionFlag] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp setAlreadyOutputDataCollectionFlag:] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp isDefaultApp] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
+[FIRDependency dependencyWithProtocol:isRequired:] in FirebaseCore(FIRDependency.o)
...
"___ubsan_handle_negate_overflow", referenced from:
-[FIRMessagingConnection logMessage:messageType:isOut:] in FirebaseMessaging(FIRMessagingConnection.o)
"___ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1", referenced from:
-[FIRApp initInstanceWithName:options:] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp getTokenForcingRefresh:withCallback:] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp configureCore] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp options] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
+[FIRApp registerAsConfigurable:] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp getUID] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
-[FIRApp isAppIDValid] in FirebaseCore(FIRApp.o)
just switch off address sanitizer
I'm not able to reproduce with Xcode 10.1. Does doing Product -> Clean Build Folder or rm ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData make a difference?
What is the exact version of Xcode? Are you using the new or old build system? This sounds more like an Xcode build issue than a Firebase issue.
Version 10.1 (10B61)
Removing derived data does not help
using the legacy build system

on release build all good
I'm not able to reproduce with the Messaging quick start. With the legacy build system, I built with the Address Sanitizer on. I turned it off and it rebuilt successfully.
Messaging quick start uses 8.0 however I use
platform :ios, '11.0' in pod file
Changing to 11.0 doesn't make a difference for me. We'll likely need a reproducible example to make progress on this issue.
will try to prepare it
@evgzor The linker issues seem to all complain about UBSan (Undefined Behavior Sanitizer). Just to check, do you have UBSan enabled in XCode?
@var-const yes UBSan was active. After disabling it the issue was gone.
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@var-const yes UBSan was active. After disabling it the issue was gone.