Comment 3 for bug 1489379

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2015-09-03 10:18 EDT-------
Some developer-backed reference for this as well:

(In reply to comment #15)
> libchecktur.so really requires a dynamic libgcc because it uses pthreads
> (namely pthread_cancel).

"""
> Wonder if someone can explain why pthread_cancel_init() dlopens
> libgcc_s.so.1?

Thread cancellation requires unwinding which is implemented by
compiler helper routines.
"""
-- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2009-10/msg00023.html