GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?

Andrew Cagney
2002-12-02T20:38:11Z

Hello,

In trying to correctly and clearly word some gdb comments (and yes ok,
and internal doco), I'm left wondering if we should `newspeak' some
terminology here and use the word `inferior' instead of `target'.

The problem with `target' is that it is totally overloaded. The
configuration target, the running target the target architecture, ....

Hence, when refering to an instance of the program being debugged, the
word `inferior' should be used. Of course, this would mean that `core'
becomes an inferior (...).

Thoughts?

Andrew

(hmm, glossary?)