Addresses of pointers in C

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I made this simple C program and compiled it without ASLR

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int a = 10;
int b = 20;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    printf("%lx\n",&a);
    printf("%lx\n",&b);

    return 0;
}   

Every time I execute it, the result is the same:

555555558018 55555555801c

Because of that, I am thinking that the data section should start somewhere near to 0x555555558018.

However, when I list the segments of my binary I see the following:

Elf file type is DYN (Position-Independent Executable file)
Entry point 0x1050
There are 13 program headers, starting at offset 64

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  PHDR           0x0000000000000040 0x0000000000000040 0x0000000000000040
                 0x00000000000002d8 0x00000000000002d8  R      0x8
  INTERP         0x0000000000000318 0x0000000000000318 0x0000000000000318
                 0x000000000000001c 0x000000000000001c  R      0x1
      [Requesting program interpreter: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]
  LOAD           0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                 0x0000000000000618 0x0000000000000618  R      0x1000
  LOAD           0x0000000000001000 0x0000000000001000 0x0000000000001000
                 0x0000000000000195 0x0000000000000195  R E    0x1000
  LOAD           0x0000000000002000 0x0000000000002000 0x0000000000002000
                 0x00000000000000e4 0x00000000000000e4  R      0x1000
  LOAD           0x0000000000002dd0 0x0000000000003dd0 0x0000000000003dd0
                 0x0000000000000250 0x0000000000000258  RW     0x1000
  DYNAMIC        0x0000000000002de0 0x0000000000003de0 0x0000000000003de0
                 0x00000000000001e0 0x00000000000001e0  RW     0x8
  NOTE           0x0000000000000338 0x0000000000000338 0x0000000000000338
                 0x0000000000000020 0x0000000000000020  R      0x8
  NOTE           0x0000000000000358 0x0000000000000358 0x0000000000000358
                 0x0000000000000044 0x0000000000000044  R      0x4
  GNU_PROPERTY   0x0000000000000338 0x0000000000000338 0x0000000000000338
                 0x0000000000000020 0x0000000000000020  R      0x8
  GNU_EH_FRAME   0x000000000000200c 0x000000000000200c 0x000000000000200c
                 0x000000000000002c 0x000000000000002c  R      0x4
  GNU_STACK      0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000  RW     0x10
  GNU_RELRO      0x0000000000002dd0 0x0000000000003dd0 0x0000000000003dd0
                 0x0000000000000230 0x0000000000000230  R      0x1

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     
   01     .interp 
   02     .interp .note.gnu.property .note.gnu.build-id .note.ABI-tag .gnu.hash .dynsym .dynstr .gnu.version .gnu.version_r .rela.dyn .rela.plt 
   03     .init .plt .plt.got .text .fini 
   04     .rodata .eh_frame_hdr .eh_frame 
   05     .init_array .fini_array .dynamic .got .got.plt .data .bss 
   06     .dynamic 
   07     .note.gnu.property 
   08     .note.gnu.build-id .note.ABI-tag 
   09     .note.gnu.property 
   10     .eh_frame_hdr 
   11     
   12     .init_array .fini_array .dynamic .got                                          

There is not such an address. I think that maybe there is a difference between C pointers (I observe that they consist of 48 bits), and the Virtual Addresses of the segments (that consist of 64 bits). Where are the C pointers actually pointing to?

I have different hypothesis. Once I read that C pointers are actually offsets of their segments (not sure if this is true). The other thing I can think about, is that C pointers are logical addresses, while the segment's virtual addresses refer to the Linear Address Space. See the difference below:

Memory in x86

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