From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10121 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2010 16:51:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 10113 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jan 2010 16:51:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:51:12 +0000 Received: (qmail 19907 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2010 16:51:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO macbook-2.local) (stan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 18 Jan 2010 16:51:10 -0000 Message-ID: <4B549177.4050703@codesourcery.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:51:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: Stan Shebs , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] "actionpoints"? References: <4B5106CB.5060204@codesourcery.com> <83iqb2cwhe.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83iqb2cwhe.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00152.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:22:35 -0800 >> From: Stan Shebs >> >> It turns out there is a generic term available - "actionpoint". It >> originally comes from TotalView I think, and was adopted into the HPD >> (high performance debugger) spec back in the 90s. >> >> A plus is that the term is sufficiently vague that it is sensible for >> watchpoints, catchpoints, tracepoints, breakpoints, and the rest of the >> menagerie, including future ideas we haven't thought of yet. A minus is >> that it means having to teach an unfamiliar term to users, and it >> entails a certain amount of hacking up the manual. >> > > Not only the manual, but also some commands, such as "info break". > They will have to be renamed. > I don't think that one can be changed, it's just too heavily used in its current form. That doesn't preclude adding new synonyms, and maybe something like "info just-breakpoints" if anyone really wants that. Stan