Setting Breakpoints

You can set a breakpoint in several ways, such as a line breakpoint or a function breakpoint. The following list explains the several ways to create a breakpoint.

• Setting a Line Breakpoint

  Toggle a line breakpoint by clicking in the left margin next to line 127.

  

• Setting a Function breakpoint

  Set a function breakpoint.

  1. Select Interp::dispatch in the Editor window.

  2. Choose Debug → New Breakpoint or right-click and choose New Breakpoint.

     The New Breakpoint dialog box appears.

     

     Notice that the Function field is seeded with the selected function name.

  3. Click OK.

• Setting a Breakpoint from the Command Line

  The easiest method to set a function breakpoint is from the dbx command line. Type the stop in command in the Debugger Console window:

  (dbx) stop in dispatch                 
  (4) stop in Interp::dispatch(char*) 
  (dbx) 

  Notice that you did not have to type Interp::dispatch. Just the function name sufficed.

Your breakpoints window and Editor probably look like the following:

To avoid clutter in the Editor, use the Breakpoints window.

1. Click the Breakpoints tab (or maximize it if you minimized it earlier).

2. Select the line breakpoint and one of the function breakpoints, right-click, and choose Delete.

For more information about breakpoints, see Chapter 6, Setting Breakpoints and Traces, in Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4: Debugging a Program With dbx .