[Bug python/17936] New: clear_objfiles event is called twice for executable + separate debug file

["dje at google dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17936

            Bug ID: 17936
           Summary: clear_objfiles event is called twice for executable +
                    separate debug file
           Product: gdb
           Version: HEAD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: python
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: dje at google dot com

When the separate debug file for the main executable is loaded SYMFILE_MAINLINE
is still set and so clear_symtab_users is called which will in turn trigger a
clear_objfiles python event.

Then, later, when resuming processing of the "real" objfile a second call to
clear_symtab_users is done triggering a second clear_objfiles python event.

Python scripts shouldn't have to cope with this internal quirk of how gdb loads
separate debug files.
Plus, I wonder if internal users of observer_attach_new_objfile are, or can be,
tripped up by this.

OTOH, the solution may be slightly non-trivial. I think we want
clear_symtab_users to be called early, and not after the separate debug file
is loaded (e.g., we can't just turn off SYMFILE_MAINLINE when loading the
separate debug file).

Also, I noticed that new_symfile_objfile will have, temporarily, set
symfile_objfile to the separate debug file.  This gets fixed when processing
of the "real" objfile resumes, after having completed processing of the
separate
debug file. Still, this feels like a bug waiting to happen.

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