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From: Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese@indel.ch>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Release symbol file
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20041006081155.01cfa8d8@NT_SERVER> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4162EE22.8070001@gnu.org>


>>>>--readnow is a global flag.  It turns on the "read now" behavior
>>>>on all future calls to symbol_file_add_with_addrs_or_offsets.
>>>>
>>>>gdb does keep file descriptors open for the target program,
>>>>but it ought to have all the symbols in memory after
>>>>"expanding to full symbols".
>>
>>I'm not concerned about the symbols but about the file access.
>>Even when started with "gdb --readnow -i mi" and load a file
>>I can't delete that file anymore. As I want to recreate it without
>>unloading from gdb I guess I need to make a copy then.
>
>How recent is your GDB?  Jerome Guitton (2004-08-10) modified GDB so that it would always close these object files.

I have (or had) a gdb-6.1.1. But as this has problems with PPC I
need to try a newer version anyway. I guess I have 2 reasons now :)

Thanks

bye  Fabi



      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22 11:11 Fabian Cenedese
2004-09-22 14:20 ` Michael Chastain
2004-09-22 14:30   ` Fabian Cenedese
2004-09-22 15:16     ` Michael Chastain
2004-09-23  6:29       ` Fabian Cenedese
2004-10-05 18:57         ` Andrew Cagney
2004-10-06  6:53           ` Fabian Cenedese [this message]

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