On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:52 AM, vijay nag <vijunag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does STT_GNU_IFUNC always execute via PLT even for a statically linked > application compiled without -FPIC ? In effect, yes. There is some magic in glibc to resolve the IRELATIVE relocations at startup time even though the dynamic linker is not being run. Ian