Break when exception is thrown

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keithwarren7 picture keithwarren7 · Jun 18, 2010 · Viewed 71.8k times · Source

Visual Studio has an option to break automatically into the debugger when an unhandled exception is thrown, does Eclipse have similar functionality?

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Jun 18, 2010

You are able to define the precise list of Exception you want to have a breakpoint on, even if those exceptions are uncaught (which should be the equivalent of "unhandled")

uncaught

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