Re: Function address incoherence

Florian Weimer <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:54:12 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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* Andrea Cardaci:

>     00000860 <_dl_rtld_di_serinfo@@GLIBC_PRIVATE-0x83c0>:

Please not the -0x83c0 offset.  The symbol information is not really
helpful, probably due to missing debugging information.

> So where does the _start reported by the disassemble command comes
> from? Is this a GDB bug or I'm missing something here?

Both the main program and the dynamic loader have a _start symbol.  The
GDB behavior you observed is typical for such symbol conflicts.

Thanks,
Florian