https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119386
--- Comment #20 from Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel dot org> --- (In reply to Alexander Monakov from comment #19) > The question is why prior to your patch GCC emitted mcount@GOT (i.e. > avoiding the PLT trampoline for mcount on purpose), going all the way back > to gcc-3.4 (and probably further). Yeah, apologies, I read this the wrong way around. Not having my best day ... I suspect lazily binding to a profiling function might result in some unpleasant infinite recursion in the presence of ifunc resolvers etc. But I am just guessing here.
