> Since none of these functions were called by the program above, Those functions are the dynamic linker adding libc.so to your process address space. 'main' is moderately far removed from the beginning of execution.
$ readelf --headers test | grep Entry Entry point address: 0x400400 $ gdb test (gdb) x/12i 0x400400 0x400400 <_start>: xor %ebp,%ebp 0x400402 <_start+2>: mov %rdx,%r9 0x400405 <_start+5>: pop %rsi 0x400406 <_start+6>: mov %rsp,%rdx 0x400409 <_start+9>: and $0xfffffffffffffff0,%rsp 0x40040d <_start+13>: push %rax 0x40040e <_start+14>: push %rsp 0x40040f <_start+15>: mov $0x400570,%r8 0x400416 <_start+22>: mov $0x400500,%rcx 0x40041d <_start+29>: mov $0x4004f0,%rdi 0x400424 <_start+36>: callq 0x4003e0 <__libc_start_main@plt> 0x400429 <_start+41>: hlt (gdb) quit $ LD_DEBUG=ALL ./test 5360: 5360: file=libc.so.6 [0]; needed by ./test [0] 5360: find library=libc.so.6 [0]; searching 5360: search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache 5360: trying file=/lib64/libc.so.6 5360: 5360: file=libc.so.6 [0]; generating link map 5360: dynamic: 0x0000003ef37b8b80 base: 0x0000000000000000 size: 0x00000000003bf260 5360: entry: 0x0000003ef3421c50 phdr: 0x0000003ef3400040 phnum: 10 5360: 5360: checking for version `GLIBC_2.2.5' in file /lib64/libc.so.6 [0] required by file ./test [0] 5360: checking for version `GLIBC_2.3' in file /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [0] required by file /lib64/libc.so.6 [0] 5360: checking for version `GLIBC_PRIVATE' in file /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [0] required by file /lib64/libc.so.6 [0] 5360: 5360: Initial object scopes 5360: object=./test [0] 5360: scope 0: ./a.out /lib64/libc.so.6 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [[snip]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users