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I often get stack traces from libunwind or AddressSanitizer like this:

#12 0x7ffff4b47063 (/home/janw/src/pl-devel/lib/x86_64-linux/libswipl.so.7.1.13+0x1f5063)
#13 0x7ffff4b2c783 (/home/janw/src/pl-devel/lib/x86_64-linux/libswipl.so.7.1.13+0x1da783)
#14 0x7ffff4b2cca4 (/home/janw/src/pl-devel/lib/x86_64-linux/libswipl.so.7.1.13+0x1daca4)
#15 0x7ffff4b2cf42 (/home/janw/src/pl-devel/lib/x86_64-linux/libswipl.so.7.1.13+0x1daf42)

I know that if I have gdb attached to the still living process, I can use this to get details on the location:

(gdb) list *0x7ffff4b47063

But if the process has died, I can not just restart it under gdb and use the above because address randomization makes that I get the wrong result (at least, that is my assumption; I clearly do not get meaningful locations). So, I tried

% gdb program
% run
<get to the place everything is loaded and type Control-C>
(gdb) info shared
<Dumps mapping location of shared objects>
(gdb) list *(<base of libswipl.so.7.1.13>+0x1f5063)

But, this either lists nothing or clearly the wrong location. This sounds simple, but I failed to find the answer :-( Platform is 64-bit Linux, but I guess this applies to any platform.

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  • From here: http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizer#gdb. What if set `ASAN_OPTIONS=abort_on_error=1`? It is supposed to produce a core file that you can use for analysis of addresses? –  Apr 23 '14 at 10:17

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(gdb) info shared
<Dumps mapping location of shared objects>

Unfortunately, above does not dump actual mapping location that is usable with this:

libswipl.so.7.1.13+0x1f5063

(as you've discovered). Rather, GDB output lists where the .text section was mapped, not where the ELF binary itself was mapped.

You can adjust for .text offset by finding it in

readelf -WS libswipl.so.7.1.13 | grep '\.text'

It might be easier to use addr2line instead. Something like

addr2line -fe libswipl.so.7.1.13 0x1f5063 0x1da783

should work.

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Please see http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html for the instructions on using the asan_symbolize.py script and/or the symbolize=true option.

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