Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] gdb: Preserve IFUNC marker when finding inferior functions

[Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Muhammad Kamran:
> 
> > GDB calls find_function_in_inferior ("malloc") when expression
> > evaluation needs to allocate memory in the inferior, e.g. for string
> > literal arguments.
> 
> ...
> 
> Maybe going through dlsym would also be the right way to do the inferior
> calls involving IFUNC resolvers.  We can also provide a symbol that GDB
> can call to make the IFUNC resolver call, given its handler address.

Perhaps we should add an alias to __libc_malloc (and other malloc
functions that GDB needs) for GDB, something like `__gdb_malloc`
that would become Glibc's ABI for GDB? This is not ideal of course
as GDB would need to look for this new symbol and than still fallback
to 'malloc' to support other non-Glibc runtimes.