The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

Resuming Execution

Knowing how to instruct the debugger where or when to pause execution of your program is important, but knowing how to instruct it to resume execution is just as important. After all, inspecting your variables may not be enough. Sometimes you need to know how the variables' values interact with the rest of the code.

Recall the Principle of Confirmation in Chapter 1: You continue to confirm that certain variables have the values you think they do, until you encounter one that fails to match your expectation. That failure will then be a clue as to the likely location of your bug. But typically the failure will not occur until you have paused and resumed execution at a number of breakpoints (or multiple times at the same ...