Hi,
I'm using an old version of Fedora (Fedora 7). I needed to modify my glibc so I compiled a glibc 2.6 and statically linked my application with the newly compiled libc.a. I noticed something interesting. In the objdump of my application binary, some libc functions, such as uname or kill, have an indirect call in them instead of the usual 'int' instruction.
If I statically compile with the default libc.a of the system (/usr/lib/libc.a), these functions don't have any indirect calls. Does any one know why this happens? Is there a certain configure option that I should use to get rid of the indirect calls?

Thanks
--Mona