Author: Aurore Poirier
Date: 2026-08-04T14:26:16+01:00
New Revision: 04c9cf4743fc62ca555f270f3621b324e2472767

URL: 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/04c9cf4743fc62ca555f270f3621b324e2472767
DIFF: 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/04c9cf4743fc62ca555f270f3621b324e2472767.diff

LOG: [LLDB] Serve unknown type symbols through `qSymbol` for non-MachO targets 
(#200134)

I am working with a binary where some symbols are generated from linker
scripts. They end up identified as `eSymbolInvalid` when loaded in LLDB.
OpenOCD can try to fetch them.

Some might even be hard-coded data, not going through an address in the
binary (explaining the presence of the check and raw value
return).

Testing it showed that **GDB returns them despite them not being proper
addresses**.
These can also be generated by C++ static constexpr, such values could
be accessed by a qSymbol query.

358cf1ea302eb introduced a divergence between GDB and LLDB where LLDB
does not serve symbols of unknown type through GDB protocol command
`qSymbol`. Per commit description, this is an expected behavior on
MachO-based platforms, but it is not on ELF-based platforms, where LLDB
should follow GDB. The changes introduced by said commit are now gated
behind an architecture check.

Added: 
    

Modified: 
    lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
    lldb/test/API/functionalities/gdb_remote_client/TestQSymbol.py

Removed: 
    


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diff  --git 
a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp 
b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
index e208c16649832..b440869f25984 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <optional>
 #include <sstream>
 
+#include "lldb/Core/Module.h"
 #include "lldb/Core/ModuleSpec.h"
 #include "lldb/Host/HostInfo.h"
 #include "lldb/Host/SafeMachO.h"
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@
 #include "llvm/Config/llvm-config.h" // for LLVM_ENABLE_ZLIB
 #include "llvm/Support/ErrorExtras.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/JSON.h"
+#include "llvm/TargetParser/Triple.h"
 
 #if HAVE_LIBCOMPRESSION
 #include <compression.h>
@@ -4279,6 +4281,19 @@ void GDBRemoteCommunicationClient::ServeSymbolLookups(
                   case eSymbolTypeCompiler:
                   case eSymbolTypeInstrumentation:
                   case eSymbolTypeTrampoline:
+                    if (sc.module_sp->GetArchitecture()
+                            .GetTriple()
+                            .getObjectFormat() !=
+                        llvm::Triple::ObjectFormatType::MachO) {
+                      // GDB does return symbols even when they are of unknown
+                      // type, following this behavior on non Mach-O
+                      // architectures.
+                      symbol_load_addr =
+                          sc.symbol->GetLoadAddress(&process->GetTarget());
+                      if (symbol_load_addr == LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS) {
+                        symbol_load_addr = sc.symbol->GetRawValue();
+                      }
+                    }
                     break;
 
                   case eSymbolTypeCode:

diff  --git a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/gdb_remote_client/TestQSymbol.py 
b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/gdb_remote_client/TestQSymbol.py
index eac176b3809d7..96d6d83c20330 100644
--- a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/gdb_remote_client/TestQSymbol.py
+++ b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/gdb_remote_client/TestQSymbol.py
@@ -74,10 +74,8 @@ def test_qsymbol(self):
             [
                 ("main", 0x1000),
                 ("local_address", 0x1004),
-                # FIXME: Should return a value.
-                ("global_value", None),
-                # FIXME: Should return a value.
-                ("local_value", None),
+                ("global_value", 0x1234),
+                ("local_value", 0xABCD),
                 ("not_a_symbol", None),
             ]
         )


        
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