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Watchpoint

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, watchpoint means: A debugger setting that pauses execution when a selected memory location is read or changed, depending on its configuration.

In Turkish: bellek izleme noktası

How it is used

Used to find who changes a value. Hardware and debugger support may limit the number and size of watched locations.

Example sentences

  1. The watchpoint stopped the program when the counter changed unexpectedly.

    The stop identifies the write responsible for the change rather than a chosen source line.

  2. We set a read watchpoint to find which routine accessed the protected buffer.

    This configuration watches reads, so the value need not change to trigger a stop.

Common collocations

  • set a watchpoint
  • hardware watchpoint
  • breakpointA marker you put on a line of code so that the program pauses there while it runs, letting you inspect variables and step through the code.
  • debuggerA tool that lets you pause a running program, go through it line by line and look at the values of variables to find out why it misbehaves.

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