Debugging with GDB: Delete Breaks

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#### 5.1.4 Deleting Breakpoints

It is often necessary to eliminate a breakpoint, watchpoint, or catchpoint once it has done its job and you no longer want your program to stop there. This is called deleting the breakpoint. A breakpoint that has been deleted no longer exists; it is forgotten.

With the `clear` command you can delete breakpoints according to where they are in your program. With the `delete` command you can delete individual breakpoints, watchpoints, or catchpoints by specifying their breakpoint numbers.

It is not necessary to delete a breakpoint to proceed past it. GDB automatically ignores breakpoints on the first instruction to be executed when you continue execution without changing the execution address.

`clear`

  Delete any breakpoints at the next instruction to be executed in the selected stack frame (see Selecting a Frame). When the innermost frame is selected, this is a good way to delete a breakpoint where your program just stopped.

`clear location`

  Delete any breakpoints set at the specified location. See Specify Location, for the various forms of location; the most useful ones are listed below:

  `clear function`
  `clear filename:function`

    Delete any breakpoints set at entry to the named function.

  `clear linenum`
  `clear filename:linenum`

    Delete any breakpoints set at or within the code of the specified linenum of the specified filename.

`delete [breakpoints] [list…]`

  Delete the breakpoints, watchpoints, or catchpoints of the breakpoint list specified as argument. If no argument is specified, delete all breakpoints (GDB asks confirmation, unless you have `set confirm off`). You can abbreviate this command as `d`.

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