US 6,983,454 B2
Extended “run to” function
Cary Lee Bates, Rochester, Minn. (US); and Steven Gene Halverson, Rochester, Minn. (US)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/113,371.
Prior Publication US 2003/0188225 A1, Oct. 02, 2003
Int. Cl. G06F 9/44 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 717—129 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of debugging code using a debugging program, comprising:
for a plurality of user-selected statements of the code, automatically setting breakpoints on each of the plurality of user-selected statements, wherein automatically setting breakpoints on each of the plurality of user-selected statements is done in response to a user selection of an extended run-to function;
executing the code until a breakpoint set on a first encountered statement of the plurality of user-selected statements is encountered and fired;
halting execution at the breakpoint; and
displaying a position at which execution halted via a user interface.