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Re: [RFC] "actionpoints"?
Joel Brobecker wrote:
One of the issues that has come up regularly in our tracepoint work
is what GDB's messages to the user should say when they are
referring to various combinations of tracepoints and breakpoints.
I like the idea of having a term that means either breakpoint/watchpoint/
tracepoint, etc. How about "eventpoint"? "actionpoint" sounds OK to me too.
"eventpoint" is a good candidate. Googling shows it in VxWorks and the
old VAX/VMS debugger - and a couple dozen appearances in GDB sources(!);
most likely inherited from HP code, which was partly written by ex-DEC
people... To me "eventpoint" has a slight downside in that it is used
in several OS debugging/monitoring tools, tied to various notions of
system-level "event", so the manual would have to emphasize that our
notion of eventpoint is not OS-related in any way. But that doesn't
seem too difficult to explain.
Stan