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Exception Dialog

The Exception dialog is displayed whenever an exception is raised that matches one of the exceptions that you specified in the Exception Filtering dialog. The line where the exception occurred is highlighted in a Source window.

This dialog gives you three choices:

Examine/Retry
Lets you investigate the cause of the exception and, if desired, retry executing the line that caused the original exception. The debugger begins with this line and attempts to continue.
Step exception
The debugger steps into the first registered exception handler (tracked by the operating system). Execution stops at the first executable line of code in that exception.
Run exception
The debugger runs the exception handler that is registered to handle the type of exception that was encountered.

OS/2: For details on OS/2 exception definitions, see the Control Program Programming Reference (S10G-6263). The Software exception is not listed in this document, since this is a user-defined OS/2 exception generated by the DosRaiseException call.