GCC will insert various calls to pthread functions when compiling
C++ code with static initializers, even when the user doesn't link
their program against libpthread explicitly.
This is used to make static initializers thread-safe, e.g. when
building a library that does not itself use thread functionality
and thus does not link against libpthread - but is intended to
be used with other code that does use libpthread explicitly.
This makes these symbols available in libc.