With 64-bit gcc:
% gcc -o hello.so helloworld.c -Wl,--as-needed -shared -fPIC
% readelf --dyn-syms hello.so
Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 13 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND _ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable
2: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND printf@GLIBC_2.2.5 (2)
3: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND __gmon_start__
4: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND _ITM_registerTMCloneTable
5: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC WEAK DEFAULT UND __cxa_finalize@GLIBC_2.2.5 (2)
6: 0000000000201030 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 22 _edata
7: 000000000000065a 33 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 helloWorld
8: 0000000000201038 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 23 _end
9: 0000000000201030 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 23 __bss_start
10: 000000000000067b 43 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 main
11: 0000000000000520 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 9 _init
12: 00000000000006a8 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 _fini
% readelf --section-headers hello.so
There are 26 section headers, starting at offset 0x1140:
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Address Offset
Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align
[ 0] NULL 0000000000000000 00000000
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0 0 0
[ 1] .note.gnu.build-i NOTE 00000000000001c8 000001c8
0000000000000024 0000000000000000 A 0 0 4
[ 2] .gnu.hash GNU_HASH 00000000000001f0 000001f0
0000000000000040 0000000000000000 A 3 0 8
[ 3] .dynsym DYNSYM 0000000000000230 00000230
0000000000000138 0000000000000018 A 4 1 8
[ 4] .dynstr STRTAB 0000000000000368 00000368
00000000000000a6 0000000000000000 A 0 0 1
[ 5] .gnu.version VERSYM 000000000000040e 0000040e
000000000000001a 0000000000000002 A 3 0 2
[ 6] .gnu.version_r VERNEED 0000000000000428 00000428
0000000000000020 0000000000000000 A 4 1 8
[ 7] .rela.dyn RELA 0000000000000448 00000448
00000000000000a8 0000000000000018 A 3 0 8
[ 8] .rela.plt RELA 00000000000004f0 000004f0
0000000000000030 0000000000000018 AI 3 21 8
[ 9] .init PROGBITS 0000000000000520 00000520
0000000000000017 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 4
[10] .plt PROGBITS 0000000000000540 00000540
0000000000000030 0000000000000010 AX 0 0 16
[11] .plt.got PROGBITS 0000000000000570 00000570
0000000000000008 0000000000000008 AX 0 0 8
[12] .text PROGBITS 0000000000000580 00000580
0000000000000126 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 16
[13] .fini PROGBITS 00000000000006a8 000006a8
0000000000000009 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 4
[14] .rodata PROGBITS 00000000000006b1 000006b1
0000000000000010 0000000000000000 A 0 0 1
[15] .eh_frame_hdr PROGBITS 00000000000006c4 000006c4
000000000000002c 0000000000000000 A 0 0 4
[16] .eh_frame PROGBITS 00000000000006f0 000006f0
000000000000009c 0000000000000000 A 0 0 8
[17] .init_array INIT_ARRAY 0000000000200e10 00000e10
0000000000000008 0000000000000008 WA 0 0 8
[18] .fini_array FINI_ARRAY 0000000000200e18 00000e18
0000000000000008 0000000000000008 WA 0 0 8
[19] .dynamic DYNAMIC 0000000000200e20 00000e20
00000000000001c0 0000000000000010 WA 4 0 8
[20] .got PROGBITS 0000000000200fe0 00000fe0
0000000000000020 0000000000000008 WA 0 0 8
[21] .got.plt PROGBITS 0000000000201000 00001000
0000000000000028 0000000000000008 WA 0 0 8
[22] .data PROGBITS 0000000000201028 00001028
0000000000000008 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8
[23] .bss NOBITS 0000000000201030 00001030
0000000000000008 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 1
[24] .comment PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00001030
000000000000002a 0000000000000001 MS 0 0 1
[25] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 0000105a
00000000000000e1 0000000000000000 0 0 1
Key to Flags:
W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings), I (info),
L (link order), O (extra OS processing required), G (group), T (TLS),
C (compressed), x (unknown), o (OS specific), E (exclude),
l (large), p (processor specific)Or in 32-bit mode (one might need to install gcc-multilib on Ubuntu):
% gcc -o hello.so helloworld.c -Wl,--as-needed -shared -fPIC
% readelf --dyn-syms hello32.so
Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 13 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 00000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND _ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable
2: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND printf@GLIBC_2.0 (2)
3: 00000000 0 FUNC WEAK DEFAULT UND __cxa_finalize@GLIBC_2.1.3 (3)
4: 00000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND __gmon_start__
5: 00000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND _ITM_registerTMCloneTable
6: 00002018 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 22 _edata
7: 000004ed 49 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 helloWorld
8: 0000201c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 23 _end
9: 00002018 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 23 __bss_start
10: 0000051e 66 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 main
11: 0000038c 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 9 _init
12: 00000564 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 _fini