How to call functions which have ifunc symbols (e.g. strcmp) from inside gdb

[David Gardner <daveg at xmos dot com>]

Hi,

Calling strcmp from inside gdb thusly:

 (gdb) call strcmp("foo", "foo")
 $3 = -146921376

Gives unexpected values.

I note that there is a bug for this already
(http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12347) and this mentions
that the strcmp symbol is the ifunc wrapper for the strcmp function, but
this seems counter-intuitive for a user of gdb.

Is there an alternative method of calling ifunc-enabled functions which
can be used for calls (and related items such as conditional
breakpoints) within gdb?  Or is just an open bug which is awaiting a fix
and I should work around by making wrappers for such functions which I
want to call from within gdb?


        Many thanks for any help!

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