Re: Setting breakpoint on the end of the method in Eclipse
dt wrote:
Thanks Patricia, this worked. Two things - this is "indirect", as you
said. It will certainly help me do what I wanted (my case is simple
enough for the above technique to be applied), but it still sucks
Well, that certainly is an opinion.
There is no instruction on '}' so there is no place to stop. You whine that
the IDE does not add a "nop" (is there even such an instruction in the JVM?).
I would whine if the IDE changed my code. I prefer breakpoints to exist
only where there is a place to stop, so /my/ opinion is that it does not suck.
and this will not let you do the other thing - stop on the end of the
while loop. To make it a little clearer:
void test() {
boolean a = true;
while(a) {
if(otherMethodReturningBoolean())
a = false;
// other code here
boolean a = true;
while(b) {
if(otherMethodReturningBoolean())
b = false;
} // <--- Breakpoint here
} // <--- Breakpoint here
} // <--- Breakpoint here
Consider the two extra breakpoint possibilities (excluding method
end). How would you debug the end of while(b), while still staying in
while(a) iteration?
Put the breakpoint on the "while ( b )" line.
Right before the first instruction of a loop is the same spot as right after
the last.
You get one extra stop, which can be eliminated with a conditional breakpoint
if it bothers you that much.
You will also need to set a breakpoint on the first instruction after the
loop, which in your case is the "while ( a )" instruction.
With the breakpoint on method exit you now have everything you asked for. It
no longer sucks, does it?
--
Lew