<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jason Dusek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.dusek@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.dusek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am not sure why that happens -- libgcc.a wasn't explicitly<br>
asked for; but it stands to reason that one shouldn't specify<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, but it's required for anything that uses the C compiler (which in this case would be glibc and any foreign libraries) --- it contains the implementation of things like (long long) support on 32-bit platforms, exception unwinding, and other compiler intrinsics. You may not use them but glibc does.</div>
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