From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1021202204343.ZM5785@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> "GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?" (Dec 2, 3:38pm)
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-02 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-02 12:38 Andrew Cagney
2002-12-02 12:44 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2002-12-02 22:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-02 13:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-02 13:30 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-02 22:22 ` Felix Lee
2002-12-03 5:29 ` Peter Reilley
2002-12-03 6:24 ` Stan Shebs
2003-02-02 6:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-02 21:07 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-02 21:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2002-12-02 22:32 ` Nick Kelsey
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