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

Kevin Buettner
2002-12-02T20:44:32Z

On Dec 2, 3:38pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> 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?

I may be wrong, but it's my impression that the use of the word
`inferior' to describe an instance of the program being debugged is
unique to GDB. That said, I don't think that the word `target' is
appropriate either. I wish we could come up with some other term
altogether...

Kevin