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Re: [RFA 01/08] multi-process support: struct inferior (alternate manual content)
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Stan Shebs <stan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: pedro at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:16:44 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFA 01/08] multi-process support: struct inferior (alternate manual content)
- References: <200809121637.34647.pedro@codesourcery.com> <48D0501E.2060802@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:32:30 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> Here is an alternate phrasing for GDB's new inferior objects,
> wordsmithed so that it (mostly) makes sense with just Pedro's patches,
> and also so that it can be easily expanded into the full multi-exec
> section in the near future. To repeat from my last comment, I don't
> think we need to be really polished just yet, the single-exec +
> multi-inferior case is just a transitional stage of limited interest.
>
> Stan
>
> 2008-09-16 Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
>
> * gdb.texinfo (Inferiors): New section.
Thanks, this is okay.
> + An inferior typically corresponds to a
> + process, but is more general and applies also to targets that do not
> + have processes.
An example of an inferior that is not a process will help here.
Also, please make sure there are 2 spaces between each 2 sentences.