How to keep watching variables and their values in VS Code Debugging Session?

Question

So I've been writing a program in C and debugging to solve the problems I had. After I solved those problems, I could not watch the values of the variables since debugging session just quits because there are no errors or breakpoints after I solved the problems occurred previously.

My editor is Visual Studio Code, running it on macOS, GCC.

Answer 1

You should basicely put breakpoints at the end of your code, for example on the return line.

If you just want to know which values your variables have at the end of the execution, you can put printf("%x", your_variable); //DEBUG for the variables you want to see, and remove these lines when you finished debugging.

Moreover, if you're familiar with prompt commands, I recommand you to install gdb, this debugger is very powerful and easy to use ! Here is a little tutorial if you're interested ;)