smithj@ichigo ~ $  gcc -o foo foo.c -static -nostartfiles -nostdlib
/usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
smithj@ichigo ~ $  cat foo.c
int _start (void) { return 0; }
int __start (void) { return 0; }
int foo (void) { return 1; }
int (*fp) (void) __attribute__ ((section (".init_array"))) = foo;

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