Static linking considered harmful

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:54:43AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> > Removing libc.a would be most effective ...
> 
> Where will the *stat() functions go?  The functions that translate
> the C API into the glibc ABI by adding an additional leading parameter
> to specify which "struct stat" is to be used for returning the result,
> and also add an 'x' and some underscores into the global name.

libc_nonshared.a, libpthread_nonshared.a, libgcc.a, libgfortranbegin.a
(and a few others) certainly aren't going away.

	Jakub