[PATCH 0.5/8] Rename "target child" to "target native".

Pedro Alves
2014-03-17T17:01:56Z

Whoop, pilot error...

On 03/17/2014 03:22 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> Pedro Alves (8):
> Rename "target djgpp" -> "target native"
> Rename "target darwin-child" -> "target native"
> Rename "target GNU" -> "target native"
> Windows: Rename "target child" -> "target native"
> nto-procfs.c: Add "target native".
> go32-nat.c: Don't override to_open.
> NEWS: Mention native target renames.
> Allow making GDB not automatically connect to the native target.

I missed including in the series the real patch #1, the one that
renames "target child" -> "target native". Here is is.

---
[PATCH 1/9] Rename "target child" to "target native".

I had been pondering renaming "target child" to something else.
"child" is a little lie in case of "attach", and not exactly very
clear to users, IMO. By best suggestion is "target native". If I
were to explain what "target child" is, I'd just start out with "it's
the native target" anyway. I was worrying a little that "native"
might be a lie too if some port comes up with a default target that
can run but is not really native, but I think that's a very minor
issue - we can consider that "native" really means the default built
in target that GDB supports, instead of saying that's the target that
debugs host native processes, if it turns out necessary.

This change doesn't affect users much, because "target child" results
in error today:

(gdb) target child
Use the "run" command to start a child process.

Other places "child" is visible:

(gdb) help target
...
List of target subcommands:

target child -- Child process (started by the "run" command)
target core -- Use a core file as a target
target exec -- Use an executable file as a target
...

(gdb) info target
Symbols from "/home/pedro/gdb/mygit/build/gdb/gdb".
Child process:
Using the running image of child Thread 0x7ffff7fc9740 (LWP 4818).
While running this, GDB does not access memory from...
...

These places will say "native" instead. I think that's a good thing.

gdb/
2014-03-17 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>

* inf-child.c (inf_child_open): Remove mention of "child".
(inf_child_target): Rename target to "native" instead of "child".

gdb/testsuite/
2014-03-17 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>

* gdb.base/default.exp: Test "target native" instead of "target
child".
---
gdb/inf-child.c | 8 ++++----
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/inf-child.c b/gdb/inf-child.c
index 282467b..8a99adc 100644
--- a/gdb/inf-child.c
+++ b/gdb/inf-child.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ inf_child_prepare_to_store (struct target_ops *self,
static void
inf_child_open (char *arg, int from_tty)
{
- error (_("Use the \"run\" command to start a child process."));
+ error (_("Use the \"run\" command to start a process."));
}

static void
@@ -406,9 +406,9 @@ inf_child_target (void)
{
struct target_ops *t = XCNEW (struct target_ops);

- t->to_shortname = "child";
- t->to_longname = "Child process";
- t->to_doc = "Child process (started by the \"run\" command).";
+ t->to_shortname = "native";
+ t->to_longname = "Native process";
+ t->to_doc = "Native process (started by the \"run\" command).";
t->to_open = inf_child_open;
t->to_post_attach = inf_child_post_attach;
t->to_fetch_registers = inf_child_fetch_inferior_registers;
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp
index a39ffcf..3636fa3 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp
@@ -746,8 +746,8 @@ gdb_test "step" "The program is not being run." "step #2"
#test symbol-file
gdb_test "symbol-file" ".*" "symbol-file"

-#test target child
-gdb_test "target child" "Use the \"run\" command to start a child process.*|Undefined target command: \"child\". *Try \"help target\".*" "target child"
+#test target native
+gdb_test "target native" "Use the \"run\" command to start a process.*|Undefined target command: \"child\". *Try \"help target\".*" "target native"

#test target core
send_gdb "target core\n"
--
1.7.11.7