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Re: [PATCH 4/9] agent doc


On 02/17/2012 01:12 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 02/17/2012 07:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>                                                         Gradually,
>>>> +they are used more widely, such as in remote stub.
>> I don't understand what you wanted to say in this sentence.  Does it
>> really add anything important?
>>
> 
> What I want to describe here is that "Agent Expression" is not only used
> in agent, but also used somewhere else, such as target-side breakpoint
> conditions in GDBserver.  Just want to avoid the confusion that Agent
> Expression is used in agent only.

IMO, the main confusion is that you're calling the new thing "agent", which
is a very generic term.  We had been using in-process (debugging)
agent (IPA) so far for the thing that is loaded in the inferior,
which is I think is a bit more to the point.  And I think users may well
get confused by reading the bits in the docs that already talk about
the in-process agent, and then this new section, which talks about
an agent, but without connecting the dots.

-- 
Pedro Alves


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