On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Caffeinate The World wrote:

: i'm wondering why we only have libgcc.a and not libgcc.so as well?

Various reasons, mostly historic, and this will be fixed in the next major
release of NetBSD (...which will also have a gcc updated to the 2.95.x
series).

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