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Re: GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:01:56 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> I may be wrong, but it's my impression that the use of the word
> `inferior' to describe an instance of the program being debugged is
> unique to GDB.
No, it's a somewhat common way of referring to a program run by another
program. Cf ``inferior shell'' etc. As an example, try grepping the
Emacs manual for the word "inferior".