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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] "actionpoints"?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iqb2cwhe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5106CB.5060204@codesourcery.com>

> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:22:35 -0800
> From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
> 
> 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 necessarily object, although personally it sounds a bit gross
to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-16  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-16  0:22 Stan Shebs
2010-01-16  7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-01-18 16:51   ` Stan Shebs
2010-01-18 18:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-16 13:51 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-01-18 17:09   ` Stan Shebs
2010-01-18  6:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-18 17:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-18 18:18     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-18 18:53       ` Stan Shebs
2010-01-18 19:08         ` Pedro Alves
2010-01-18 18:44   ` Stan Shebs
2010-01-18 19:04     ` Pedro Alves
2010-01-21 21:24       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-18 19:35     ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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