Re: Alpha completely broken: build_regcache never called

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:23:28AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >>>I believe this patch is responsible:
> >>>
> >>>2002-03-20  Martin M. Hunt  <hunt@redhat.com>
> >>>
> >>>* regcache.c (_initialize_regcache): No need to call
> >>> build_regcache() at this time; it gets called whenever
> >>> the gdbarch changes.
> >>>
> >>>Alpha is completely non-multi-arch.  Thus the gdbarch appears to never
> >>>change, and we crash very quickly.
> >
> >>
> >>When non-multi-arch, that function should still be called via:
> >>
> >>initialize_non_multiarch ();
> >>
> >>is this not happening?
> >
> >
> >That function only initializes things created with
> >register_gdbarch_data... not register_gdbarch_swap.  Adding a call to
> >init_gdbarch_swap (&startup_gdbarch) in initialize_non_multiarch causes
> >it to be called.  Is that correct?
> 
> Er, yes :-(  Does it ``work'' (between the other two functions to match 
> gdbarch_update_p())?

Yep.  Want me to check it in?


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