breakpoint
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- History
- Types of breakpoints
- Machine breakpoints
- Non-interactive breakpoints
- Interactive breakpoints
- Conditional breakpoints
- Inspection tools
- Logpoints
- Implementations
- Hardware
- Software
- See also
- References
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In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. It is also sometimes simply referred to as a pause.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “breakpoint” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.