Using a breakpoint
One way to test our suspicion is to force the loop to iterate
only four times.
To do so we first need to stop the loop after it has
iterated that many times.
dbxtra allows us to do this by letting us set breakpoints
within programs using the stop command.
(dbxtra) stop at 49 if player=3
[2] stop at "deal.c":49 if deal.deal_hands.player == 3
Line 49 is the last line of the loop after all statements within
it have been executed and if player is 3, we know
that it has iterated four times.
Rerunning the program now produces:
(dbxtra) rerun
Dealing 1 hands...
at 49: cardsleft = 52
at 49: cardsleft = 39
at 49: cardsleft = 26
at 49: cardsleft = 13
[2] stopped in deal_hands at line 49 in file "deal.c"
To prevent the fifth iteration of the loop, we just need to
increment player by one:
(dbxtra) assign player=player+1
(dbxtra) print player
4
The counter has been incremented, so there will not be another pass
when you continue the program.
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