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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC stub-side break conditions 1/5] Documentation bits
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120106063424.GI2730@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F066283.2090609@earthlink.net>

> >To align with subject, I doubt it should be "stub-side" rather than
> >"target-side".
> >
> 
> I would prefer to say "target-side" everywhere actually - no one
> really knows what we mean by "stub", and if they try to understand
> it by looking at, say, our foo-stub.c files, they'll get really
> confused. :-)  "Target-side" has the right connotation of "outside
> GDB" but without committing to a specific implementation strategy -
> like conditional breakpoint tests in h/w debug registers, which
> would be the most awesome...

Indeed. Just to be sure: we should also change the name of the setting
from "stub" to "target".

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-06  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-05 14:56 Luis Machado
2012-01-06  2:19 ` Yao Qi
2012-01-06  2:55   ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-06  6:35     ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-01-06  8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-06 13:49   ` Luis Machado
2012-01-06 16:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-06 16:22 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-06 17:08   ` Luis Machado
2012-01-12 19:54     ` Pedro Alves

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