What's wrong with visual code, add watching assembly code

Question

I'm newbie to Assembly and visual studio. I'm trying to 'add watch' my asm variables, but it seem's not working. In watch windows, it's supposed to display as name: rax , value : 111 But it keeps displaying like the picture. Why the 'add Watch' doesn't functioning well in my vs? ps: visual studio 2019 / x64 / build customization file: masm

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65901578/whats-wrong-with-visual-code-add-watching-assembly-code

Answer 1

When a breakpoint is hit, the line it is on is not yet executed. You can either set the breakpoint ond ret oder press F10 to step over the current statement.