Is there a way to tell the debugger to stop just before returning, on whichever statement exits from the method, be it return, exception, or fall out the bottom? I am inspired by the fact that the Java editor shows me all the places that my method can exit – it highlights them when you click on the return type of the method declaration, (Mark Occurrences enabled).
[eclipse 3.4]
Put a breakpoint on the line of the method signature. That is where you write
Then right-click on the breakpoint and select ‘Breakpoint Properties’. At the bottom of the pop-up there are two checkboxes: ‘Method Entry’, ‘Method Exit’. Check the latter.