Re: RFA: cleanup INIT_DISASSEMBLE_INFO macro

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> 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