/* Variables that describe the inferior process running under GDB:
Where it is, why it stopped, and how to step it.
- Copyright (C) 1986-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1986-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
extern struct value *get_return_value (struct value *function,
struct type *value_type);
+/* Whether to start up the debuggee under a shell.
+
+ If startup-with-shell is set, GDB's "run" will attempt to start up
+ the debuggee under a shell.
+
+ This is in order for argument-expansion to occur. E.g.,
+
+ (gdb) run *
+
+ The "*" gets expanded by the shell into a list of files.
+
+ While this is a nice feature, it may be handy to bypass the shell
+ in some cases. To disable this feature, do "set startup-with-shell
+ false".
+
+ The catch-exec traps expected during start-up will be one more if
+ the target is started up with a shell. */
+extern int startup_with_shell;
+
/* Address at which inferior stopped. */
extern CORE_ADDR stop_pc;
#define ON_STACK 1
#define AT_ENTRY_POINT 4
-/* If STARTUP_WITH_SHELL is set, GDB's "run"
- will attempts to start up the debugee under a shell.
- This is in order for argument-expansion to occur. E.g.,
- (gdb) run *
- The "*" gets expanded by the shell into a list of files.
- While this is a nice feature, it turns out to interact badly
- with some of the catch-fork/catch-exec features we have added.
- In particular, if the shell does any fork/exec's before
- the exec of the target program, that can confuse GDB.
- To disable this feature, set STARTUP_WITH_SHELL to 0.
- To enable this feature, set STARTUP_WITH_SHELL to 1.
- The catch-exec traps expected during start-up will
- be 1 if target is not started up with a shell, 2 if it is.
- - RT
- If you disable this, you need to decrement
- START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED in tm.h. */
-#define STARTUP_WITH_SHELL 1
+/* Number of traps that happen between exec'ing the shell to run an
+ inferior and when we finally get to the inferior code, not counting
+ the exec for the shell. This is 1 on most implementations.
+ Overridden in nm.h files. */
#if !defined(START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED)
-#define START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED 2
+#define START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED 1
#endif
struct private_inferior;