int nr_primary_symtabs = 0;
   int nr_blocks = 0;
 
-  ALL_SYMTABS (o, s)
+  /* When collecting statistics during startup, this is called before
+     pretty much anything in gdb has been initialized, and thus
+     current_program_space may be NULL.  */
+  if (current_program_space != NULL)
     {
-      ++nr_symtabs;
-      if (s->primary)
+      ALL_SYMTABS (o, s)
        {
-         ++nr_primary_symtabs;
-         nr_blocks += BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (BLOCKVECTOR (s));
+         ++nr_symtabs;
+         if (s->primary)
+           {
+             ++nr_primary_symtabs;
+             nr_blocks += BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (BLOCKVECTOR (s));
+           }
        }
     }
 
   struct cmd_stats *start_stats = (struct cmd_stats *) arg;
   int msg_type = start_stats->msg_type;
 
-  if (start_stats->time_enabled)
+  if (start_stats->time_enabled && per_command_time)
     {
       long cmd_time = get_run_time () - start_stats->start_cpu_time;
       struct timeval now_wall_time, delta_wall_time, wait_time;
                         (long) delta_wall_time.tv_usec);
     }
 
-  if (start_stats->space_enabled)
+  if (start_stats->space_enabled && per_command_space)
     {
 #ifdef HAVE_SBRK
       char *lim = (char *) sbrk (0);
 #endif
     }
 
-  if (start_stats->symtab_enabled)
+  if (start_stats->symtab_enabled && per_command_symtab)
     {
       int nr_symtabs, nr_primary_symtabs, nr_blocks;
 
 {
   struct cmd_stats *new_stat;
 
-  /* Early exit if we're not reporting any stats.  */
-  if (!per_command_time
+  /* Early exit if we're not reporting any stats.  It can be expensive to
+     compute the pre-command values so don't collect them at all if we're
+     not reporting stats.  Alas this doesn't work in the startup case because
+     we don't know yet whether we will be reporting the stats.  For the
+     startup case collect the data anyway (it should be cheap at this point),
+     and leave it to the reporter to decide whether to print them.  */
+  if (msg_type != 0
+      && !per_command_time
       && !per_command_space
       && !per_command_symtab)
     return make_cleanup (null_cleanup, 0);
 
   new_stat->msg_type = msg_type;
 
-  if (per_command_space)
+  if (msg_type == 0 || per_command_space)
     {
 #ifdef HAVE_SBRK
       char *lim = (char *) sbrk (0);
 #endif
     }
 
-  if (per_command_time)
+  if (msg_type == 0 || per_command_time)
     {
       new_stat->start_cpu_time = get_run_time ();
       gettimeofday (&new_stat->start_wall_time, NULL);
       new_stat->time_enabled = 1;
     }
 
-  if (per_command_symtab)
+  if (msg_type == 0 || per_command_symtab)
     {
       int nr_symtabs, nr_primary_symtabs, nr_blocks;
 
 
 # tests here!!
 gdb_test_no_output "maint check-symtabs"
 
+# Test per-command stats.
 gdb_test_no_output "maint set per-command on"
-
-gdb_test "maint set per-command off" \
+gdb_test "pwd" \
     "Command execution time: \[0-9.\]+ \\(cpu\\), \[0-9.\]+ \\(wall\\)\[\r\n\]+Space used: $decimal \\(\\+$decimal for this command\\)\[\r\n\]+#symtabs: $decimal \\(\\+$decimal\\), #primary symtabs: $decimal \\(\\+$decimal\\), #blocks: $decimal \\(\\+$decimal\\)"
+gdb_test_no_output "maint set per-command off"
 
 gdb_test "maint demangle" \
     "\"maintenance demangle\" takes an argument to demangle\\."