> it's not really static if you depend on glibc Most operating systems don’t provide guarantees about ABI stability between versions, instead mandating that li

> it's not really static if you depend on glibc Most operating systems don’t provide guarantees about ABI stability between versions, instead mandating that libc (or other user space APIs) are the intended interface to syscalls. Because if this, you can often come across statically compiled executables will still depend on glibc while inlining stuff like libpng. > if you depend on glibc... things can still break, e.g. when compiled on too new glibc it fails to run on older versions. That’s the point I was making ;)