https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119386

--- Comment #22 from Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel dot org> ---
(In reply to Alexander Monakov from comment #21)
> GOT indirection for mcount has been there from the very beginning:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit/gcc/tree/gcc/config/i386/i386.
> h?id=c98f874233428d7e6ba83def7842fd703ac0ddf1#n623

For x86_64 it was added by

commit a5fa1ecdab781978f189f6fe7fff83ab04b4e6e0
Author: Jan Hubicka <j...@suse.cz>
Date:   Fri Nov 15 15:57:12 2002 +0100

    i386-protos.h (x86_function_profiler): New function

as far as I can tell, but without any rationale for the change.

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