Setting Breakpoints

• The problem with just running the code is that it keeps on running until the program exits, which is usually too late. For this, breakpoints are introduced.
• A break point is a command for the debugger to stop the execution of the program before executing a specific source line.
• We can set break points using two methods:
  1. Specifying a specific line of code to stop in:
     (gdb) break debugme.c:9
     Will insert a break point right before checking the command line arguments in our program.
  2. Specifying a function name, to break every time it is being called:
     (gdb)break main
     this will set a break point right when starting the program (as the function "main" gets executed automatically on the beginning of any C or C++ program).