A perspective defines the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window. Within the window, each perspective shares the same set of editors. Each perspective provides a set of functionality aimed at accomplishing a specific type of task or works with specific types of resources.
The Debug perspective lets you manage how the Workbench debugs and runs a program. You can control your program's execution by setting breakpoints, suspending launched programs, stepping through your code, and examining the values of variables.
The Debug perspective displays this information:
- The stack frame of the suspended threads of each target that you are debugging
- Each thread in your program represented as a node in the tree
- The process of each program that you are running
The Debug perspective also drives the Source view. As you step through your program, the Source view highlights the location of the execution pointer.
The following figure shows a Debug perspective.
