Data breakpoints are now becoming a part of common breakpoint vocabulary. They help in detecting heap corruption, inadvertent data overwrites and writing past buffer boundaries. Most programmer’s restrict the definition of data breakpoints to breakpoints that help halting the execution of code in the debugger when memory is written to. This is the kind of [...]
It is very useful to be able to break execution of code at a line number of your choice. Breakpoints are provided in debuggers to do exactly that. It is fun getting to the root of the problem by setting breakpoints in a debug session. It is even more fun to know how do breakpoints work in the first place.
Have you faced the problem of breakpoint clutter where breakpoints keep piling up only to hinder the debugging session? It is then that one realizes that there are some breakpoints that can be deleted and others disabled. A useful feature in a debugger is a temporary breakpoint that automagically gets deleted when hit thereby reducing the clutter of unnecessary breakpoints. These [...]
If you are familiar with hit count breakpoints already, you may want to click here to jump to the advanced tricks shared in this article. What is the hit count of a breakpoint? A debugger allows users to set a breakpoint at a specific line in code. When the execution reaches that line, the breakpoint [...]
