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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2018-04-26 13:01:26 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2018-04-26 13:04:48 +0100
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Calling ifunc functions when target has no debug info but resolver has
After the previous patch, on Fedora 27 (glibc 2.26), if you try calling strlen in the inferior, you now get: (top-gdb) p strlen ("hello") '__strlen_avx2' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type This is correct, because __strlen_avx2 is written in assembly. We can improve on this though -- if the final ifunc resolved/target function has no debug info, but the ifunc _resolver_ does have debug info, we can try extracting the final function's type from the type that the resolver returns. E.g.,: typedef size_t (*strlen_t) (const char*); size_t my_strlen (const char *) { /* some implementation */ } strlen_t strlen_resolver (unsigned long hwcap) { return my_strlen; } extern size_t strlen (const char *s); __typeof (strlen) strlen __attribute__ ((ifunc ("strlen_resolver"))); In the strlen example above, the resolver returns strlen_t, which is a typedef for pointer to a function that returns size_t. "strlen_t" is the type of both the user-visible "strlen", and of the the target function that implements it. This patch teaches GDB to extract that type. This is done for actual inferior function calls (in infcall.c), and for ptype (in eval_call). By the time we get to either of these places, we've already lost the original symbol/minsym, and only have values and types to work with. Hence the changes to c-exp.y and evaluate_var_msym_value, to ensure that we propagate the ifunc minsymbol's info. The change to make ifunc symbols have no/unknown return type exposes a latent problem -- gdb.compile/compile-ifunc.exp calls a no-debug-info function, but we did not warn about it. The test is fixed by this commit too. gdb/ChangeLog: 2018-04-26 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * blockframe.c (find_gnu_ifunc_target_type): New function. (find_function_type): New. * eval.c (evaluate_var_msym_value): For GNU ifunc types, always return a value with a memory address. (eval_call): For calls to GNU ifunc functions, try to find the type of the target function from the type that the resolver returns. * gdbtypes.c (objfile_type): Don't install a return type for ifunc symbols. * infcall.c (find_function_return_type): Delete. (find_function_addr): Add 'function_type' parameter. For calls to GNU ifunc functions, try to find the type of the target function from the type that the resolver returns, and return it via FUNCTION_TYPE. (call_function_by_hand_dummy): Adjust to use the function type returned by find_function_addr. (find_function_addr): Add 'function_type' parameter and move description here. * symtab.h (find_function_type, find_gnu_ifunc_target_type): New declarations. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2018-04-26 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.compile/compile-ifunc.exp: Also expect "function has unknown return type" warnings.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/gdbtypes.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/gdbtypes.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/gdbtypes.c b/gdb/gdbtypes.c
index b3a0379..2efd126 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbtypes.c
+++ b/gdb/gdbtypes.c
@@ -5443,10 +5443,6 @@ objfile_type (struct objfile *objfile)
objfile_type->nodebug_text_gnu_ifunc_symbol
= init_type (objfile, TYPE_CODE_FUNC, TARGET_CHAR_BIT,
"<text gnu-indirect-function variable, no debug info>");
- /* Ifunc resolvers return a function address. */
- TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (objfile_type->nodebug_text_gnu_ifunc_symbol)
- = init_integer_type (objfile, gdbarch_addr_bit (gdbarch), 1,
- "__IFUNC_RESOLVER_RET");
TYPE_GNU_IFUNC (objfile_type->nodebug_text_gnu_ifunc_symbol) = 1;
objfile_type->nodebug_got_plt_symbol
= init_pointer_type (objfile, gdbarch_addr_bit (gdbarch),