Program size, linking matter, and static this()

[Marco Leise]

Am 16.12.2011, 23:08 Uhr, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy at yahoo.com>:

> Note that on Linux today, the executable is not truly static -- OS libs  
> are dynamically linked.

That should hold true for any OS. Otherwise, how would the program  
communicate with the kernel and drivers, i.e. render a button on the  
screen? Some dynamically linked in functions must provide the interface to  
that "administrative singleton" that manages system resources.