You use a breakpoint to halt program execution on a particular line of source code. Once execution halts, you can examine your program's current state and check register and variable values. You can also change these values and alter the flow of normal program execution. Setting breakpoints helps you debug your program and verify its efficiency.
The types of breakpoints are:
- Regular - Halts the program execution.
- Conditional - Halts the program execution when a specified condition is met.
- Special - Halts the program execution and then removes the breakpoint that caused the halt.
Breakpoints have enabled and disabled states. The following table defines these states.
