How debuggers work: Part 2 – Breakpoints

This is the second part in a series of articles on how debuggers work. Make sure you read the first part before this one.In this partI’m going to demonstrate how breakpoints are implemented in a debugger. Breakpoints are one of the two main pillars of debugging – the other being able to inspect values in the debugged process’s memory. We’ve already seen a preview of the other pillar in part 1 of