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


FYI,

The book `How Debuggers Work''s glossary contains:

debugee
The program being debugged. The child process of the debugger. Some authors have refered to the debuggee process as the ``inferior'' process.


So, either `debugee' or `inferior'.

Andrew


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