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I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but I'll give the same example I gave before (you can get even wilder simplifications -- called relaxations -- with TLS, since there are 4 levels of generality there). I'm not sure what you meant by "changing isntructions", but in the first case the linker did the fixup indicated by the relocation and in the second reduced the generality of the reference (one less level of indirection by changing mov to lea) because it knew the symbol could not be preempted (more exactly, the R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX relocation allows the linker to do the relaxation if it can determine that it's safe to)

  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# cat a.c
  int glob;
  int main() {
   return glob;
  }
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# gcc -c a.c -fPIC -o a.o
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# objdump --disassemble=main a.o
  
  a.o:     file format elf64-x86-64
  
  
  Disassembly of section .text:
  
  0000000000000000 <main>:
     0: f3 0f 1e fa           endbr64
     4: 55                    push   %rbp
     5: 48 89 e5              mov    %rsp,%rbp
     8: 48 8b 05 00 00 00 00  mov    0x0(%rip),%rax        # f <main+0xf>
     f: 8b 00                 mov    (%rax),%eax
    11: 5d                    pop    %rbp
    12: c3                    ret
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# readelf -rW a.o | grep glob
  000000000000000b  000000030000002a R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX 0000000000000000 glob - 4
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# gcc -shared -o a.so a.o
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# objdump --disassemble=main a.so
  (...)
  00000000000010f9 <main>:
      10f9: f3 0f 1e fa           endbr64
      10fd: 55                    push   %rbp
      10fe: 48 89 e5              mov    %rsp,%rbp
      1101: 48 8b 05 b8 2e 00 00  mov    0x2eb8(%rip),%rax        # 3fc0 <glob-0x4c>
      1108: 8b 00                 mov    (%rax),%eax
      110a: 5d                    pop    %rbp
      110b: c3                    ret
  (...)
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# readelf -r a.so | grep glob
  000000003fc0  000600000006 R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT 000000000000400c glob + 0
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# gcc -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic -o a.symb.so a.o
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# readelf -r a.symb.so | grep glob
  root@1f0775a74fd7:/tmp# objdump --disassemble=main a.symb.so
  (...)
  Disassembly of section .text:
  
  00000000000010f9 <main>:
      10f9: f3 0f 1e fa           endbr64
      10fd: 55                    push   %rbp
      10fe: 48 89 e5              mov    %rsp,%rbp
      1101: 48 8d 05 04 2f 00 00  lea    0x2f04(%rip),%rax        # 400c <glob>
      1108: 8b 00                 mov    (%rax),%eax
      110a: 5d                    pop    %rbp
      110b: c3                    ret
  (...)