Footnotes

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On some systems, ‘gcc -shared’ needs to build supplementary stub code for constructors to work. On multi-libbed systems, ‘gcc -shared’ must select the correct support libraries to link against. Failing to supply the correct flags may lead to subtle defects. Supplying them in cases where they are not necessary is innocuous. -shared suppresses the addition of startup code to alter the floating-point environment as done with -ffast-math, -Ofast or -funsafe-math-optimizations on some targets.