Re: [rfc] Do not call read_pc in startup_inferior

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:37:12PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a while ago, I committed a patch to avoid calling wait_for_inferior
> in startup_inferior, so as to avoid accessing inferior register state
> at a time where the target's actual register layout has not yet been
> determined (via target_find_description).
> 
> However, startup_inferior still contains a read_pc call to retrieve
> the initial value of stop_pc -- this of course runs into the same
> problem.
> 
> The patch below removes the read_pc call from startup_inferior, and
> instead determines the initial stop_pc value in post_create_inferior,
> after the register layout has been finalized.

You're moving the call from a native "run" only routine, to an
all-targets routine.  That made me curious so I went looking... what
relies on this setting?  Anything?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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