Index: llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/X86/start-stop-address.test
===================================================================
--- llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/X86/start-stop-address.test
+++ llvm/test/tools/llvm-objdump/X86/start-stop-address.test
@@ -68,4 +68,7 @@
 // OUT-OF-RANGE-NOT: Disassembly
 
 // RUN: not llvm-objdump -d %t.out --start-address=0x40 --stop-address=0x3f 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix ERRMSG
-// ERRMSG: error: Start address should be less than stop address.
+// RUN: not llvm-objdump -d %t.out --start-address=0x40 --stop-address=0x40 2=&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix ERRMSG
+// ERRMSG: error: start address should be less than stop address.
+// RUN: not llvm-objdump -d %t.out --start-address=0x3f --stop-address=0x40 1>&2 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix ERRMSG
+// ERRMSG: error: the stop address should be after the start address
Index: llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
===================================================================
--- llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
+++ llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
@@ -1403,8 +1403,10 @@
 }
 
 static void disassembleObject(const ObjectFile *Obj, bool InlineRelocs) {
-  if (StartAddress > StopAddress)
-    error("Start address should be less than stop address");
+  if (StartAddress >= StopAddress)
+    error("error: start address should be less than stop address");
+  if (StartAddress < StopAddress)
+   error("error: the stop address should be after the start address");
 
   const Target *TheTarget = getTarget(Obj);