[RFC/WIP PATCH v2 14/12] experiment with "scope"

[Pedro Alves]

On Saturday 17 December 2011 02:59:04, Pedro Alves wrote:
> The name of this new concept is still up for grabs.  Let me repeat a
> bit of the discussion on the v1 series on the topic here:
> 
>   Tromey wrote:
>   > Pedro> IPTC sets are a collection of arbitrarily many processes,
>   > Pedro> threads, and cores.
>   > 
>   > I wish we had a better name.
>   > 
>   > The current name seems to gain a letter with every new thread on the
>   > topic :-)
> 
>   That was kind of on purpose.  :-)
> 
>   The best name I could think of is "scope".  If we call these things
>   scopes, we can also rename the itfocus command to "scope", which can
>   be abbreviated as "sc".  ("s" is already step, obviously).  It's spelled
>   itfocus currently because "focus" was already taken by the TUI.
> 
>   It looks like this:
> 
>   curinf> scope t3 break -stop i1 main
>   Breakpoint 2 at 0x40068c: file threads.c, line 35.
>   curinf> scope i1
>   Current inferior is 1.
>   i1> sc all
>   Current inferior is 1.
>   all>
>   
>   WDYT?

I wrote this patch to try out how it feels to use "scope" for things.
Also not in git.

-- 
Pedro Alves

---

 gdb/infrun.c |    2 +-
 gdb/itset.c  |   20 ++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/infrun.c b/gdb/infrun.c
index c3e6d0d..89cb51a 100644
--- a/gdb/infrun.c
+++ b/gdb/infrun.c
@@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ set_schedlock_func (char *args, int from_tty, struct cmd_list_element *c)
 }
 
 /* True if execution commands resume all threads of all processes in
-   the current focus by default; otherwise, resume only threads of the
+   the current scope by default; otherwise, resume only threads of the
    current inferior process.  */
 int sched_multi = 1;
 
diff --git a/gdb/itset.c b/gdb/itset.c
index d65cc37..8ea89aa 100644
--- a/gdb/itset.c
+++ b/gdb/itset.c
@@ -1521,7 +1521,7 @@ make_cleanup_itset_free (struct itset *itset)
 static struct itset_elt *parse_neg (char **spec);
 static struct itset_elt *parse_parens_set (char **spec);
 static struct itset_elt *parse_itset_one (char **spec);
-static struct itset_elt *parse_current_focus (char **spec);
+static struct itset_elt *parse_current_scope (char **spec);
 
 static int
 valid_spec_end (char *spec)
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ parse_elem (char **spec)
   if (elt != NULL)
     return elt;
 
-  elt = parse_current_focus (spec);
+  elt = parse_current_scope (spec);
   if (elt != NULL)
     return elt;
 
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ parse_neg (char **spec)
 }
 
 static struct itset_elt *
-parse_current_focus (char **spec)
+parse_current_scope (char **spec)
 {
   struct itset_elt_itset *itset_elt;
 
@@ -2026,7 +2026,7 @@ switch_to_itset (struct itset *itset)
   int inf_count;
 
   /* For now, set a current inferior from the first element of the
-     focus set.  */
+     scope set.  */
   inf = iterate_over_itset_inferiors (itset, first_inferior, NULL);
   if (inf == NULL)
     {
@@ -2073,7 +2073,7 @@ switch_to_itset (struct itset *itset)
 }
 
 static void
-itfocus_command (char *spec, int from_tty)
+scope_command (char *spec, int from_tty)
 {
   struct itset *itset;
   struct cleanup *old_chain;
@@ -2081,11 +2081,11 @@ itfocus_command (char *spec, int from_tty)
   if (spec == NULL)
     {
       if (current_itset)
-	printf_filtered (_("Focus is `%s' (current inferior is %d)"),
+	printf_filtered (_("Scope is `%s' (current inferior is %d)"),
 			 current_itset->spec,
 			 current_inferior ()->num);
       else
-	printf_filtered (_("No focus has been set. (current inferior is %d)"),
+	printf_filtered (_("No scope has been set. (current inferior is %d)"),
 			 current_inferior ()->num);
       printf_filtered ("\n");
       return;
@@ -2111,7 +2111,7 @@ itfocus_command (char *spec, int from_tty)
     }
 
   if (itset_is_empty (itset))
-    warning (_("focus set is empty"));
+    warning (_("scope set is empty"));
 
   discard_cleanups (old_chain);
 
@@ -2120,7 +2120,7 @@ itfocus_command (char *spec, int from_tty)
 
   switch_to_itset (itset);
 
-  /* Confirm the choice of focus.  */
+  /* Confirm the choice of scope.  */
   printf_filtered (_("Current inferior is %d.\n"), current_inferior ()->num);
 }
 
@@ -2515,7 +2515,7 @@ _initialize_itset (void)
 
   current_itset = itset_reference (curinf_itset);
 
-  add_com ("itfocus", no_class, itfocus_command, _("\
+  add_com ("scope", no_class, scope_command, _("\
 Change the set of current inferiors/threads."));
 
   add_com ("defset", no_class, defset_command, _("\