From: Muhammad Kamran <muhammad.kamran@arm.com>
To: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>,
Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>,
Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>,
Yury Khrustalev <Yury.Khrustalev@arm.com>,
Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>,
Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
Muhammad Kamran <muhammad.kamran@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] gdb: Keep original IFUNC return type when target type is unknown
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:04:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260630110443.12900-3-muhammad.kamran@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260630110443.12900-1-muhammad.kamran@arm.com>
When find_function_addr resolves a GNU IFUNC, it tries to replace the
original function type with the resolved target type, or with the type
returned by the resolver. If neither source provides a useful return
type, keep the return type from the original function value.
This matters for internal inferior calls such as
find_function_in_inferior ("malloc"), where GDB creates a synthetic
function type with a known fallback return type.
Remove the guard from the IFUNC inferior-call test so the no-debug
resolver/no-debug target variants are tested too.
---
gdb/infcall.c | 12 ++++++++++--
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu-ifunc.exp | 7 -------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/infcall.c b/gdb/infcall.c
index e6b24ff5310..077407073ac 100644
--- a/gdb/infcall.c
+++ b/gdb/infcall.c
@@ -395,6 +395,9 @@ find_function_addr (struct value *function,
FUNCTION_TYPE have been asked for. */
if (retval_type != NULL || function_type != NULL)
{
+ /* Default to original function type's return type. Target type
+ replaces this only if it provides a usable return type. */
+ value_type = ftype->target_type ();
type *target_ftype = find_function_type (funaddr);
/* If we don't have debug info for the target function,
see if we can instead extract the target function's
@@ -403,8 +406,13 @@ find_function_addr (struct value *function,
target_ftype = find_gnu_ifunc_target_type (resolver_addr);
if (target_ftype != NULL)
{
- value_type = check_typedef (target_ftype)->target_type ();
- ftype = target_ftype;
+ struct type *target_value_type
+ = check_typedef (target_ftype)->target_type ();
+ if (target_value_type != NULL)
+ {
+ value_type = target_value_type;
+ ftype = target_ftype;
+ }
}
}
}
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu-ifunc.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu-ifunc.exp
index 23a5aadbcbf..2d7100276f8 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu-ifunc.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu-ifunc.exp
@@ -416,13 +416,6 @@ proc_with_prefix test_inferior_call {resolver_attr resolver_debug final_debug} {
return
}
- # Without debug info for both the resolver and the resolved target,
- # find_function_addr currently loses the synthetic return type after
- # resolving the IFUNC.
- if {!$resolver_debug && !$final_debug} {
- unsupported "internal call resolves IFUNC malloc"
- return
- }
gdb_test "print (get_string (\"hello-ifunc\"), str_in_arena ())" \
" = 1" \
"internal call resolves IFUNC malloc"
--
2.43.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-30 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-30 11:04 [PATCH v4 0/2] gdb: Fix internal inferior calls through GNU IFUNCs Muhammad Kamran
2026-06-30 11:04 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] gdb: Preserve IFUNC marker when finding inferior functions Muhammad Kamran
2026-06-30 11:04 ` Muhammad Kamran [this message]
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