RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 21:09:00 GMT 2003
>> 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).
> Jim even kindly gave me three paragraphs of explanatory verbiage
> describing what they are :)
Andrew
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