C++ All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 3

Stopping and Inspecting Your Code

IN THIS CHAPTER

Setting, enabling, and disabling breakpoints

Temporarily setting or disabling a breakpoint

Inspecting a variable

Watching any or all local and global variables

Sometimes, code breaks. The word break has different meanings among the people using it in the coding world. When programmers talk about breaking the code, it may mean that the programmer made a mistake and the code no longer works. It could also mean that a change in a library causes the code to malfunction despite a lack of errors caused by the programmer. But this chapter uses a different definition for break. When you’re debugging an application, you can have the application run until it gets to a certain line in the code. The debugger then stops at that line, and you can look at the values of variables, inspect the code, or even change the variables. When the application stops, that’s called breaking. It stops on that particular line because you put a breakpoint on that line.

This chapter discusses setting and manipulating breakpoints in your code (if nothing ...