From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Fix formatted print of functions
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:03:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260930120313.3096634-1-tromey@adacore.com> (raw)
A user noticed that formatted printing of functions is strange. That
is, printing a function normally does what you'd expect, but "print/d"
or "print/x" will, bizarrely, instead print the value of the first
byte of the function's body:
(gdb) print main
$1 = {<text variable, no debug info>} 0x393c20 <main>
(gdb) print/x main
$2 = 0x41
This doesn't seem useful or intuitive to me.
This patch changes gdb to instead simply print the function pointer
using the specified format.
Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 43.
v2: Fixed all the mistakes in the tests.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34685
---
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp | 13 +++++++++++++
gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/printmethod.exp | 11 ++++++++++-
gdb/valprint.c | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp
index 9de1bcdd1a3..2ae19e9e440 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp
@@ -1176,6 +1176,18 @@ proc test_printf_convenience_var {prefix} {
}
}
+# Test formatted print with a function. See PR gdb/34685.
+proc test_function_print {} {
+ with_test_prefix function {
+ gdb_test_no_output "set print address on"
+ set out [get_valueof "" main ""]
+ gdb_test_no_output "set print address off"
+ }
+ regexp -- [subst_vars {^.* ($::hex) .*$}] $out ignore value
+ gdb_test "print/x main" " = $value"
+ gdb_test "print/d main" " = [expr {$value}]"
+}
+
clean_restart
gdb_test "print \$pc" "No registers\\."
@@ -1267,3 +1279,4 @@ test_print_symbol
test_repeat_bytes
test_radices
test_repeat_bytes_limit
+test_function_print
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/printmethod.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/printmethod.exp
index fdc1c91bf23..0da08b1f7ee 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/printmethod.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/printmethod.exp
@@ -49,4 +49,13 @@ gdb_test "print theA->nonvirt" \
"${::valnum_re} = {void \\(A \\* const\\)} $hex <A::nonvirt\\((void|)\\)>" \
"print nonvirtual method."
-gdb_exit
+proc test_formatted {exp} {
+ set out [get_valueof "" $exp ""]
+ regexp -- [subst_vars {^.* ($::hex) .*$}] $out ignore value
+ gdb_test "print/x $exp" " = $value"
+ gdb_test "print/d $exp" " = [expr {$value}]"
+}
+
+# Test for PR gdb/34685.
+test_formatted A::nonvirt
+test_formatted theA->virt
diff --git a/gdb/valprint.c b/gdb/valprint.c
index 83a442dcef5..211bdca04f1 100644
--- a/gdb/valprint.c
+++ b/gdb/valprint.c
@@ -1300,6 +1300,14 @@ value_print_scalar_formatted (struct value *val,
gdb_assert (val != NULL);
+ /* Treat a function or a method as if it were a pointer. */
+ if (type->code () == TYPE_CODE_FUNC
+ || type->code () == TYPE_CODE_METHOD)
+ {
+ val = value_addr (val);
+ type = check_typedef (val->type ());
+ }
+
/* If we get here with a string format, try again without it. Go
all the way back to the language printers, which may call us
again. */
base-commit: 9decc44bc67d9fb4248c2afe4fde77174e8abf80
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 12:03 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-30 12:03 Tom Tromey [this message]
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