[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Conditional breakpoints in debugger

["Dale King" <KingD@xxxxxxx>]

"Jared Burns" <jared_burns@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We don't currently support conditional breakpoints, however, there is a PR
> with the feature request.
>
> - Jared
>
> Matthew Conway wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to set a conditional breakpoint?  i.e. break here only if
> > some expression evaluates to true.  I figured out how to set hitcounts,
and
> > exception catchpoints, but don't see anything about conditionals.  If
its
> > not currently possible, I'd like to add it as a feature request.
Thanks,
>
> > Matt


Add my vote for it. I was doing some debugging today where they would have
been EXTREMELY helpful. I had to set the breakpoint and keep hitting go
until I saw the condition was true. Note that was several hundred keypresses
to get to that point!
--
 Dale King