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Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:52:36PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On the infrastructure side we will be able to have an "impl_breakpoint"
> >>> (short for implementation; better naming ideas?) for each location we
> >>are
> >>> watching using hardware watchpoints. This will simplify a lot of code.
> >>It
> >>> will also eventually become easier to object-orient our breakpoints.
> >
> >>
> >>How about "user breakpoints" and "machine breakpoints"?
> >
> >
> >I like it.
>
> Daniel, did you mention somewhere that the debugger book used "logical"
> and "physical" breakpoint? If it does, it might be better to adopt its
> terminology here.
No, but Joel did. I'd rather not though; the name doesn't make as much
sense to me as Jim's suggestion, and I don't think that the one book
(even if it's close to the only book...) counts as enough of a
precedent to set terminology.
Jim even kindly gave me three paragraphs of explanatory verbiage
describing what they are :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer