Rename "target child" to "target native".

I had been pondering renaming "target child" to something else.
"child" is a little lie in case of "attach", and not exactly very
clear to users, IMO.  By best suggestion is "target native".  If I
were to explain what "target child" is, I'd just start out with "it's
the native target" anyway.  I was worrying a little that "native"
might be a lie too if some port comes up with a default target that
can run but is not really native, but I think that's a very minor
issue - we can consider that "native" really means the default built
in target that GDB supports, instead of saying that's the target that
debugs host native processes, if it turns out necessary.

This change doesn't affect users much, because "target child" results
in error today:

 (gdb) target child
 Use the "run" command to start a child process.

Other places "child" is visible:

 (gdb) help target
 ...
 List of target subcommands:

 target child -- Child process (started by the "run" command)
 target core -- Use a core file as a target
 target exec -- Use an executable file as a target
 ...

 (gdb) info target
 Symbols from "/home/pedro/gdb/mygit/build/gdb/gdb".
 Child process:
	 Using the running image of child Thread 0x7ffff7fc9740 (LWP 4818).
	 While running this, GDB does not access memory from...
 ...

These places will say "native" instead.  I think that's a good thing.

gdb/
2014-05-21  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* inf-child.c (inf_child_open): Remove mention of "child".
	(inf_child_target): Rename target to "native" instead of "child".

gdb/testsuite/
2014-05-21  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* gdb.base/default.exp: Test "target native" instead of "target
	child".

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 0291b2c61507be16e41eae74b2dba0b9a8197530..3775095934bb1014829ddc45a6fed82e537ac223 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-05-21  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
+
+       * inf-child.c (inf_child_open): Remove mention of "child".
+       (inf_child_target): Rename target to "native" instead of "child".
+
 2014-05-21  Andreas Arnez  <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 
        * Makefile.in (SFILES): Delete "regset.c".

diff --git a/gdb/inf-child.c b/gdb/inf-child.c
index 282467b6b32fa1968128b1d969ac105db9dc9d1b..8a99adc01c46ac9c88f7e37ed055acc51e346b42 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/inf-child.c
+++ b/gdb/inf-child.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ inf_child_prepare_to_store (struct target_ops *self,
 static void
 inf_child_open (char *arg, int from_tty)
 {
-  error (_("Use the \"run\" command to start a child process."));
+  error (_("Use the \"run\" command to start a process."));
 }
 
 static void
@@ -406,9 +406,9 @@ inf_child_target (void)
 {
   struct target_ops *t = XCNEW (struct target_ops);
 
-  t->to_shortname = "child";
-  t->to_longname = "Child process";
-  t->to_doc = "Child process (started by the \"run\" command).";
+  t->to_shortname = "native";
+  t->to_longname = "Native process";
+  t->to_doc = "Native process (started by the \"run\" command).";
   t->to_open = inf_child_open;
   t->to_post_attach = inf_child_post_attach;
   t->to_fetch_registers = inf_child_fetch_inferior_registers;

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index c285612c692fd6182f7786433097bbc9752c77df..790a82a6a0365dcb9d675c62b98c7c33ab36b80d 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-05-21  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
+
+       * gdb.base/default.exp: Test "target native" instead of "target
+       child".
+
 2014-05-21  Mark Wielaard  <mjw@redhat.com>
 
        * gdb.cp/var-tag.exp (do_global_tests): Handle underlying type.

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp
index a39ffcf900e061a92c91aadeed0dd90de776630a..3636fa3d709d224103c3cd496f35b0836f9878f2 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/default.exp
@@ -746,8 +746,8 @@ gdb_test "step" "The program is not being run." "step #2"
 #test symbol-file
 gdb_test "symbol-file" ".*" "symbol-file"
 
-#test target child
-gdb_test "target child" "Use the \"run\" command to start a child process.*|Undefined target command: \"child\".  *Try \"help target\".*" "target child"
+#test target native
+gdb_test "target native" "Use the \"run\" command to start a process.*|Undefined target command: \"child\".  *Try \"help target\".*" "target native"
 
 #test target core
 send_gdb "target core\n"