Release symbol file

[Fabian Cenedese]

>>>>--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