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GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:38:03 -0500
- Subject: GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?
Hello,
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?
Andrew
(hmm, glossary?)