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Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by okanat on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @09:10PM (#49355281)
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355262

How libstdc++ initializes global variables absolutely depends on glibc and ld-linux.so. That is part of C++ ABI.

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Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by account42 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:52AM (#49358370)
That's libstdc++ depending on a C ABI (or a GNU ABI to be precise) but that doesn't make it a C++ ABI. You can also have global constructors in C with GCC.
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