GDB Speak: `inferior' rather than `target'?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> I may be wrong, but it's my impression that the use of the word
> `inferior' to describe an instance of the program being debugged is
> unique to GDB.

No, it's a somewhat common way of referring to a program run by another 
program.  Cf ``inferior shell'' etc.  As an example, try grepping the
Emacs manual for the word "inferior".