(ddd.info)Breakpoint Ignore Counts

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5.1.7 Breakpoint Ignore Counts
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A special case of a breakpoint condition is to stop only when the
breakpoint has been reached a certain number of times.  This is so
useful that there is a special way to do it, using the "ignore count"
of the breakpoint.  Every breakpoint has an ignore count, which is an
integer.  Most of the time, the ignore count is zero, and therefore has
no effect.  But if your program reaches a breakpoint whose ignore count
is positive, then instead of stopping, it just decrements the ignore
count by one and continues.  As a result, if the ignore count value is
N, the breakpoint does not stop the next N times your program reaches
it.

   In the field `Ignore Count' of the `Breakpoint Properties' panel,
you can specify the breakpoint ignore count.(1)

   If a breakpoint has a positive ignore count and a condition, the
condition is not checked.  Once the ignore count reaches zero, DDD
resumes checking the condition.

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) JDB, Perl and some DBX variants do not support breakpoint ignore
counts.