There are 18 section headers, starting at offset .*: Section Headers: \[Nr\] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al \[ 0\] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 \[ 1\] \.hash HASH 00008000 001000 000040 04 A 2 0 4 \[ 2\] \.dynsym DYNSYM [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 0000b0 10 A 3 6 4 \[ 3\] \.dynstr STRTAB [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 000023 00 A 0 0 1 \[ 4\] \.rela\.got RELA [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 000018 0c AI 2 11 4 \[ 5\] \.rela\.neardata RELA [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 000018 0c AI 2 12 4 \[ 6\] \.rela\.bss RELA [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 00000c 0c AI 2 13 4 \[ 7\] \.dynamic DYNAMIC [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 0000b8 08 WA 3 0 4 \[ 8\] \.rela\.plt RELA 10000000 002000 00000c 0c AI 2 11 4 \[ 9\] \.plt PROGBITS [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 000040 18 AX 0 0 32 \[10\] \.text PROGBITS [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 000040 00 AX 0 0 32 \[11\] \.got PROGBITS [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 000020 00 WA 0 0 4 \[12\] \.neardata PROGBITS [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 00000c 00 WA 0 0 4 \[13\] \.bss NOBITS [0-9a-f]* [0-9a-f]* 000004 00 WA 0 0 4 \[14\] \.c6xabi\.attributes C6000_ATTRIBUTES 00000000 [0-9a-f]* 000019 00 0 0 1 \[15\] \.symtab SYMTAB 00000000 [0-9a-f]* 0001b0 10 16 22 4 \[16\] \.strtab STRTAB .* \[17\] \.shstrtab STRTAB .* Key to Flags: #... Elf file type is EXEC \(Executable file\) Entry point 0x10000060 There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 52 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align LOAD 0x001000 0x00008000 0x00008000 0x00208 0x00208 RW 0x1000 LOAD 0x002000 0x10000000 0x10000000 0x000cc 0x000d0 RWE 0x1000 DYNAMIC 0x[0-9a-f]* 0x[0-9a-f]* 0x[0-9a-f]* 0x000b8 0x000b8 RW 0x4 GNU_STACK 0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x20000 RW 0x8 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections\.\.\. 00 \.hash \.dynsym \.dynstr \.rela\.got \.rela\.neardata \.rela\.bss \.dynamic 01 \.rela\.plt \.plt \.text \.got \.neardata \.bss 02 \.dynamic 03 Dynamic section at offset 0x[0-9a-f]* contains 18 entries: Tag Type Name/Value 0x00000001 \(NEEDED\) Shared library: \[tmpdir/libtestb\.so\] 0x00000004 \(HASH\) 0x8000 0x00000005 \(STRTAB\) 0x[0-9a-f]* 0x00000006 \(SYMTAB\) 0x[0-9a-f]* 0x0000000a \(STRSZ\) 35 \(bytes\) 0x0000000b \(SYMENT\) 16 \(bytes\) 0x00000015 \(DEBUG\) 0x0 0x00000003 \(PLTGOT\) 0x100000ac 0x00000002 \(PLTRELSZ\) 12 \(bytes\) 0x00000014 \(PLTREL\) RELA 0x00000017 \(JMPREL\) 0x10000000 0x00000007 \(RELA\) 0x[0-9a-f]* 0x00000008 \(RELASZ\) 72 \(bytes\) 0x00000009 \(RELAENT\) 12 \(bytes\) 0x70000000 \(C6000_DSBT_BASE\) 0x100000a0 0x70000001 \(C6000_DSBT_SIZE\) 0x3 0x70000003 \(C6000_DSBT_INDEX\) 0x0 0x00000000 \(NULL\) 0x0 Relocation section '\.rela\.got' at offset 0x[0-9a-f]* contains 2 entries: Offset Info Type Sym\. Value Symbol's Name \+ Addend 100000b8 [0-9a-f]* R_C6000_ABS32 100000c0 b \+ 0 100000bc [0-9a-f]* R_C6000_ABS32 100000cc a \+ 0 Relocation section '\.rela\.neardata' at offset 0x[0-9a-f]* contains 2 entries: Offset Info Type Sym\. Value Symbol's Name \+ Addend 100000c4 [0-9a-f]* R_C6000_ABS32 00000000 g1 \+ 0 100000c8 [0-9a-f]* R_C6000_ABS32 00000000 g2 \+ 0 Relocation section '\.rela\.bss' at offset 0x[0-9a-f]* contains 1 entry: Offset Info Type Sym\. Value Symbol's Name \+ Addend 100000cc [0-9a-f]* R_C6000_COPY 100000cc a \+ 0 Relocation section '\.rela\.plt' at offset 0x[0-9a-f]* contains 1 entry: Offset Info Type Sym\. Value Symbol's Name \+ Addend 100000b4 [0-9a-f]* R_C6000_JUMP_SLOT 00000000 sub0 \+ 0 Symbol table '\.dynsym' contains 11 entries: Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name 0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND 1: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 9.* 2: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 10.* 3: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 11.* 4: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 12.* 5: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 13.* 6: [0-9a-f]* 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 b 7: 00000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND g1 8: 00000000 0 OBJECT WEAK DEFAULT UND g2 9: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND sub0 10: [0-9a-f]* 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 a Symbol table '\.symtab' contains 27 entries: Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name 0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND 1: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1.* 2: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2.* 3: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3.* 4: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 4.* 5: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 5.* 6: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 6.* 7: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 7.* 8: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 8.* 9: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 9.* 10: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 10.* 11: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 11.* 12: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 12.* 13: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 13.* 14: [0-9a-f]* 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 14.* 15: [0-9a-f]* 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS .*shlib-app-1\.o 16: [0-9a-f]* 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 10 fish 17: [0-9a-f]* 8 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 12 w 18: [0-9a-f]* 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS 19: [0-9a-f]* 0 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 7 _DYNAMIC 20: [0-9a-f]* 0 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 11 _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ 21: [0-9a-f]* 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 11 __c6xabi_DSBT_BASE 22: [0-9a-f]* 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 b 23: [0-9a-f]* 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND g1 24: [0-9a-f]* 0 OBJECT WEAK DEFAULT UND g2 25: [0-9a-f]* 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND sub0 26: [0-9a-f]* 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 a