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Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:09:08PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> >>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.
>
> I know of two books, the other is the GDB internals.
>
> I find "machine" is too vague and non-commital while "physical" strongly
> suggests suggests that it is tangable or concrete. "user" vs "logical"
> is well, whatever (although "physical" and "logical" tend to go together
> giving a familar paring).
I don't find "machine" particularly vague. On the other hand, I find
"physical" inaccurate - doubly so for software (i.e. not hardware)
breakpoints.
I'll think about it some more.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer