What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Debug a simple program using gdb

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

gdb.x86_64                         8.2-20.el8                         @appstream

gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-21) (GCC) 

Linux localhost.localdomain 4.18.0-517.el8.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 11 00:24:54 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to reproduce

1. Create hello world program

[root@localhost alex]# cat hw.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main()

1. cc -g -o hw hw.c
2. gdb ./hw
3. run

Expected results

The program runs to completion

Actual results

Sigsegv in dl_main

starting program: /home/alex/hw

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000ffffef7c6729 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000ffffef7c6729 in ?? ()
#1  0x00007ffff7dee91a in dl_main (phdr=<optimized out>, 
    phnum=<optimized out>, user_entry=<optimized out>, auxv=<optimized out>)
    at rtld.c:1881
#2  0x00007ffff7deb313 in _dl_sysdep_start (
    start_argptr=start_argptr@entry=0x7fffffffe320, 
    dl_main=dl_main@entry=0x7ffff7ded050 <dl_main>) at ../elf/dl-sysdep.c:256
#3  0x00007ffff7decc0b in _dl_start_final (arg=0x7fffffffe320) at rtld.c:490
#4  _dl_start (arg=0x7fffffffe320) at rtld.c:583
#5  0x00007ffff7debcb8 in _start () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#6  0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#7  0x00007fffffffe5a0 in ?? ()
#8  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()