From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12055 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2004 14:20:56 -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 11991 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2004 14:20:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blount.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.226) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Sep 2004 14:20:54 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by blount.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CA7zH-0005ax-00; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:20:51 -0400 Received: from mindspring.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BACC4B102; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:20:00 -0000 From: Michael Chastain To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Cenedese@indel.ch Subject: Re: Release symbol file Message-ID: <41518A44.nail2AU21SZUX@mindspring.com> References: <5.2.0.9.1.20040922130725.01d68fe0@NT_SERVER> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20040922130725.01d68fe0@NT_SERVER> User-Agent: nail 10.8 6/28/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00178.txt.bz2 Fabian Cenedese wrote: > I know that gdb tries to optimize disc accesses by first reading only the > minimal symbols and only complete them upon request. Is there a > possibility to read in the whole file and release it so the tool chain > can overwrite it? Or do I need to do stuff like copying the file and read > this into gdb so the original can be overwritten? gdb --readnow file