From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30963 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2002 18:14:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30890 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 18:14:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 18:14:38 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25453E9F; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:14:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C8E458B.4010607@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:14:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020210 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Simms Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: A Very Simple Question about source/target files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 > Hello all, > > I'm new here, so if this isn't the right place to ask this stuff, > please just point me in the right direction... > > I've been using gdb on cygwin, running it with the insight gui. One > thing that's been driving me nuts is that every time I figure out a > correction to make, I have to shut down gdb before running the compiler. > Apparently, I can't figure out how to get gdb to release the source file > (a.exe, for example) so that gcc can (re)write it. > > Any help would be much appreciated... (This is the right place) See the thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-04/msg00205.html I created the bug report: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=415 so it doesn't get forgotten again (sigh). Interested in trying to fix it? Andrew