On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:27:15AM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > This is a form we use inside _libc_ so that calls to those functions > generated by gcc will be redirected to aliases with hidden visibility > and thus be local calls, without using the PLT. If that won't work > with clang, then we'll want to figure out some other way to get the > calls to those functions generated by the compiler to be local calls > inside libc.
I'm not sure about all possible platforms, but for all I can think of, it is enough if the target is hidden. In that case ld should be using a direct jump/call to the destination without creating a PLT entry. Joerg
