While debugging with jdb on the command line, it shows me a status line after each step that looks like this:
Step completed: "thread=main", [class name].[method], line=10 bci=20
What is bci and how can it be useful to me?
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It means
byte code index. A single line, even a single Java statement, may translate to several bytecode instructions. The byte code index tells you which bytecode instruction was executed.