What's the difference between "statically linked" and "not a dynamic executable" from Linux ldd?
Consider this AMD64 assembly program: .globl _start _start: xorl %edi, %edi movl $60, %eax syscall If I compile that with gcc -nostdlib and run ldd a.out , I get this: statically linked If I instead compile that with gcc -static -nostdlib and run ldd a.out , I get this: not a dynamic executable What's the difference between statically linked and not a dynami