RFA: cleanup INIT_DISASSEMBLE_INFO macro

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Tue Sep 2 15:28:00 GMT 2003


> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:54:49PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> Here's a revised patch.  It just updates the binutils side and retains 
>> backward compatibility.  I discovered that the sim directories have a 
>> few lotering INIT_DISASSEMBLE_INFO references.
> 
> 
> OK.  Hmm, you might like to use a memset in init_disassemble_info
> instead of all the zero and NULL assignments.

That gets religious - check the archives.  If you really want the change 
just say the word :-)

> Question:  I'd like to stash the results of parsing
> disassemble_info.disassembler_options in disassemble_info.private_data.
> Saves doing the parsing every call to print_insn.  Is this compatible
> with gdb?  ie. Does gdb re-init disassemble_info if the options change?

GDB's disassemble info object isn't static.  It is initialized at the 
start of every disassemble sequence (one or more print instruction 
calls).  GDB <-> opcodes has a number of problems here, though, I'll 
start a new thread.

Andrew




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