To Resume Program Execution at a Specific Line

1. Use the assign command to give the variable a correct value.

2. Use cont at line_number to skip the line that contains the function call that would have computed the value incorrectly.

   Assume that a program is stopped at line 123. Line 123 calls a function, how_fast(), that computes incorrectly a variable, speed. You know what the value of speed should be, so you assign a value to speed. Then you continue program execution at line 124, skipping the call to how_fast().

   (dbx) assign speed = 180; cont at 124;

   For more information, see cont Command.

   If you use the cont command with a when breakpoint command, the program skips the call to how_fast() each time the program attempts to execute line 123.

   (dbx) when at 123 { assign speed = 180; cont at 124;}

   For more information on the when command, see:

   • Setting a stop Breakpoint at a Line of Source Code

   • Setting Breakpoints in Member Functions of Different Classes

   • Setting Breakpoints in Member Functions of the Same Class

   • Setting Multiple Breakpoints in Nonmember Functions

   • when Command