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Subject: Re: GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?
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FYI,

The book `How Debuggers Work''s glossary contains:

debugee
The program being debugged.  The child process of the debugger.  Some 
authors have refered to the debuggee process as the ``inferior'' process.


So, either `debugee' or `inferior'.

Andrew