corefiles/2007: deleting the file that you're trying to

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>Number:         2007
>Category:       corefiles
>Synopsis:       deleting the file that you're trying to
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 07 13:38:01 UTC 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     palfrey@tevp.net
>Release:        20050907-cvs
>Organization:
>Environment:
Debian testing/unstable
>Description:
(previously reported as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323217)

Doing this is *very* stupid, but deleting the file that you're trying to debug crashes gdb.

Example:

palfrey@kriek:[~/wsn/projects/positif/routing] gdb refine 
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) she rm refine
(gdb) r
BFD: BFD 2.16.91 20050907 internal error, aborting at /local/palfrey/src/src/bfd/cache.c line 496 in bfd_cache_lookup_worker

BFD: Please report this bug.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

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 Deleting the file that you're trying to debug crashes gdb
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 Deleting the file that you're trying to debug crashes gdb