------- Additional Comments From hjl at lucon dot org 2004-12-15 22:54 ------- We tried very hard to provide -static-libgcc which links against libgcc.a and libgcc_eh.a instead of libgcc.a and libgcc_s.so.1. The main purpose of -static-libgcc is to link in the copy of the unwind stuff. Introduction of libunwind moved the unwind stuff from libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_eh.a into libunwind.so.7/libunwind.a. With libunwind, -static-libgcc should still link in the copy of the unwind stuff, instead of from a shared library. Otherwise, applications which expect that behavior of -static-libgcc won't work correctly.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18153
