tracepoint
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tracepoint (plural tracepoints)
- (computing, programming) A kind of breakpoint that performs a custom action.
- 1987, A. Nico Habermann, Ugo Montanari, System Development and Ada, page 42:
- In addition to standard interactive debugging capabilities (display and modification of program variables, setting tracepoints and breakpoints for subprograms, displaying subprogram call stack, and so on), a number of new features were added for VAX Ada.
- 2005, Karli Watson, Christian Nagel, Jacob Hammer Pedersen, Beginning Visual C# 2005, page 161:
- The first thing to notice is that tracepoints have no equivalent to the Trace commands, that is, there is no way to output information in a Release build using tracepoints.