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The ones that matter to me are perfectly capable of handling a -static flag and use other C runtimes.


Yes, but "to me" is hardly relevant in a general discussion, if 99% of devs will use either GCC or Clang. Except if we're talking about a niche domain.


Clang can do static linking, it doesn't depend on glibc.

Also, there is ICC, MSVC, C++ Builder, aCC, xlC, SunPRO, TI C, ARM DS C, ....




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