Coincidental Symbolic Information

This is a Mac OS X / GDB counterpart to Coincidental Symbolic Information pattern previously described for Windows platforms (Volume 1, page 390). The idea is the same: to disassemble the address to see if the preceding instruction is a call. If it is indeed then most likely the symbolic address is a return address from past Execution Residue (page 220):

(gdb) x $rsp
0x7fff6a162a38: 0x8fab9a9c

(gdb) x/1000a 0x7fff6a162000
[...]
0x7fff6a162960: 0x7fff6a162980 0x7fff6a167922
0x7fff6a162970: 0x0 0x0
0x7fff6a162980: 0x7fff6a162a50 0×7fff8a31e716 <dyld_stub_binder_+13>
0×7fff6a162990: 0×1 0×7fff6a162b00
0×7fff6a1629a0: 0×7fff6a162b10 0×7fff6a162bc0
0×7fff6a1629b0: 0×8 0×0
[...]
0×7fff6a162a00: 0×0 0×0
0×7fff6a162a10: 0×0 0×0
0×7fff6a162a20: 0×0 0×0
0×7fff6a162a30: 0×7fff6a162a60 0×7fff8fab9a9c <abort+177>
0×7fff6a162a40: 0×0 0×0
0×7fff6a162a50: 0×7fffffffffdf 0×0
[...]
0×7fff6a163040: 0×35000 0×0
0×7fff6a163050: 0×35000 0×500000007
0×7fff6a163060: 0×7 0×747865745f5f
0×7fff6a163070: 0×0 0×545845545f5f
0×7fff6a163080: 0×0 0×7fff5fc01000 <__dyld_stub_binding_helper>
0×7fff6a163090: 0×22c9d 0xc00001000
0×7fff6a1630a0: 0×0 0×80000400
[...]

(gdb) disass 0×7fff8a31e716
Dump of assembler code for function dyld_stub_binder_:
0×00007fff8a31e709 <dyld_stub_binder_+0>: mov 0×8(%rbp),%rdi
0×00007fff8a31e70d <dyld_stub_binder_+4>: mov 0×10(%rbp),%rsi
0×00007fff8a31e711 <dyld_stub_binder_+8>: callq 0×7fff8a31e86d
<_Z21_dyld_fast_stub_entryPvl>
0×00007fff8a31e716 <dyld_stub_binder_+13>: mov %rax,%r11
0×00007fff8a31e719 <dyld_stub_binder_+16>: movdqa 0×40(%rsp),%xmm0
0×00007fff8a31e71f <dyld_stub_binder_+22>: movdqa 0×50(%rsp),%xmm1
0×00007fff8a31e725 <dyld_stub_binder_+28>: movdqa 0×60(%rsp),%xmm2
0×00007fff8a31e72b <dyld_stub_binder_+34>: movdqa 0×70(%rsp),%xmm3
0×00007fff8a31e731 <dyld_stub_binder_+40>: movdqa 0×80(%rsp),%xmm4
0×00007fff8a31e73a <dyld_stub_binder_+49>: movdqa 0×90(%rsp),%xmm5
0×00007fff8a31e743 <dyld_stub_binder_+58>: movdqa 0xa0(%rsp),%xmm6

0×00007fff8a31e74c <dyld_stub_binder_+67>: movdqa 0xb0(%rsp),%xmm7
0×00007fff8a31e755 <dyld_stub_binder_+76>: mov (%rsp),%rdi
0×00007fff8a31e759 <dyld_stub_binder_+80>: mov 0×8(%rsp),%rsi
0×00007fff8a31e75e <dyld_stub_binder_+85>: mov 0×10(%rsp),%rdx
0×00007fff8a31e763 <dyld_stub_binder_+90>: mov 0×18(%rsp),%rcx
0×00007fff8a31e768 <dyld_stub_binder_+95>: mov 0×20(%rsp),%r8
0×00007fff8a31e76d <dyld_stub_binder_+100>: mov 0×28(%rsp),%r9
0×00007fff8a31e772 <dyld_stub_binder_+105>: mov 0×30(%rsp),%rax
0×00007fff8a31e777 <dyld_stub_binder_+110>: add $0xc0,%rsp
0×00007fff8a31e77e <dyld_stub_binder_+117>: pop %rbp
0×00007fff8a31e77f <dyld_stub_binder_+118>: add $0×10,%rsp
0×00007fff8a31e783 <dyld_stub_binder_+122>: jmpq *%r11

(gdb) x/2i 0×7fff8fab9a9c
0×7fff8fab9a9c <abort+177>: mov $0×2710,%edi
0×7fff8fab9aa1 <abort+182>: callq 0×7fff8fab9c43 <usleep$nocancel>

(gdb) disass 0×7fff8fab9a9c-5 0×7fff8fab9a9c
Dump of assembler code from 0×7fff8fab9a97 to 0×7fff8fab9a9c:
0×00007fff8fab9a97 <abort+172>: callq 0×7fff8fb1f54a <dyld_stub_kill>
End of assembler dump.

(gdb) disass 0×7fff5fc01000
Dump of assembler code for function __dyld_stub_binding_helper:
0×00007fff5fc01000 <__dyld_stub_binding_helper+0>: add %al,(%rax)
0×00007fff5fc01002 <__dyld_stub_binding_helper+2>: add %al,(%rax)
0×00007fff5fc01004 <__dyld_stub_binding_helper+4>: add %al,(%rax)
0×00007fff5fc01006 <__dyld_stub_binding_helper+6>: add %al,(%rax)
End of assembler dump.

(gdb) x/10 0×7fff5fc01000-0×10
0×7fff5fc00ff0: 0×00000000 0×00000000 0×00000000 0×00000000
0×7fff5fc01000 <__dyld_stub_binding_helper>: 0×00000000 0×00000000
0×00000000 0×00000000
0×7fff5fc01010 <__dyld_offset_to_dyld_all_image_infos>: 0×00000000
0×00000000