On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 1:49 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > It turns out that was a red herring; GCC is actually implicitly marking the > abort() function as cold, and as Linux's implementation happened to be marked > as weak I assumed that was the culprit. That and your previous message probably explains probably why I couldn't reproduce it. Thanks a lot for all the details -- the `cold` issue is reproducible since gcc 4.6 at least: https://godbolt.org/z/PoxazzT9T The `abort` case appears to happen since gcc 8.1. Cheers, Miguel