APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DEFINING EXCEPTION HANDLERS IN A DEBUGGER

An apparatus and method allow dynamically defining exception handlers in a debugger and breaking only when one of the dynamically-defined exception handlers is called. In this manner a programmer can define special exception handlers referred to herein as debugger exception handlers that correspond to exceptions of interest while debugging, and can thus distinguish between exceptions that are expected (and therefore handled) in a computer program and exceptions that signal a bug in the computer program during debugging.