Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 19:49:00 GMT 2003

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> So, for visible-pointer equality, a PLT in the executable is
> always required for the referenced function even if there are no
> calls, which also seems to happen (for at least ia32 and CRIS).

Yes, any non-PIC code that refers to the symbol in the executable requires
that there be a PLT entry so that it can be the link-time constant address
that the symbol means for comparison.  

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