Geoff, When building xplor with -shared-libgcc -whyload, I don't see any explicit symbols being loaded from libgcc_s. However from libxplorCmd.dylib, which has code called from xplor, I see...
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib(unwind-dw2_s.o) loaded to resolve symbol: __Unwind_Resume /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib(darwin-fallback_s.o) loaded to resolve private symbol: __Unwind_fallback_frame_state_for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib(dylib1.o) loaded to resolve private symbol: dyld_stub_binding_helper /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib(link editor) loaded to resolve private symbol: __mh_dylib_header /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib(darwin-fpsave_s.o) loaded to resolve private symbol: restFP /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib(unwind-dw2-fde-darwin_s.o) loaded to resolve symbol: __Unwind_Find_FDE Finally from libintVar.dylib, which has code called from libxplorCmd.dylib, I see... /sw/lib/gcc4/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.2.0/../../../libgcc_s.10.4.dylib(single module) loaded to resolve symbol: __Unwind_Resume Let me know if you need anything else to pin this problem down. Jack