Re: [RFC] "actionpoints"?

[Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> One of the issues that has come up regularly in our tracepoint work
>> is what GDB's messages to the user should say when they are
>> referring to various combinations of tracepoints and breakpoints.
>>     
>
> I like the idea of having a term that means either breakpoint/watchpoint/
> tracepoint, etc. How about "eventpoint"? "actionpoint" sounds OK to me too.
>   
"eventpoint" is a good candidate.  Googling shows it in VxWorks and the 
old VAX/VMS debugger - and a couple dozen appearances in GDB sources(!); 
most likely inherited from HP code, which was partly written by ex-DEC 
people...  To me "eventpoint" has a slight downside in that it is used 
in several OS debugging/monitoring tools, tied to various notions of 
system-level "event", so the manual would have to emphasize that our 
notion of eventpoint is not OS-related in any way.  But that doesn't 
seem too difficult to explain.

Stan