Alpha completely broken: build_regcache never called

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Wed Apr 3 21:25:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:15:04AM -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?

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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