diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 8a8401a687..4af4c22533 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-01-12  Jason Molenda  (jsm@bugshack.cygnus.com)
+
+	* monitor.c (init_monitor_ops): Initialize the monitor_ops
+	structure if it hasn't already been done.
+
 Tue Jan 12 14:50:10 1999  Stan Shebs  <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
 
 	* inftarg.c (child_ops): Don't initialize statically.
diff --git a/gdb/monitor.c b/gdb/monitor.c
index 9420fe6934..a8e4a6be26 100644
--- a/gdb/monitor.c
+++ b/gdb/monitor.c
@@ -2268,6 +2268,9 @@ void
 init_monitor_ops (ops)
      struct target_ops *ops;
 {
+  if (monitor_ops.to_magic != OPS_MAGIC)
+    init_base_monitor_ops ();
+
   memcpy (ops, &monitor_ops, sizeof monitor_ops);
 }