--- a/cbits/symbols.armv7a-android.c
+++ b/cbits/symbols.armv7a-android.c
@@ -353,34 +353,10 @@
 MISSING_FUN(__loader_add_thread_local_dtor)
 MISSING_FUN(__loader_remove_thread_local_dtor)
 MISSING_FUN(__clang_call_terminate)
-// Symbols absent from the armv7a Android NDK's bionic / libc++ as
-// shipped with our current toolchain.  The dynamic linker would
-// otherwise fail to load this library when it sees the unresolved
-// references via `SYM(...)` below.  These stubs are never expected
-// to be invoked at runtime; if a real call ever lands here we
-// `exit(1)` with a diagnostic so the caller is visible instead of
-// silently corrupting state.
-MISSING_FUN(__arm_fadvise64_64)
-MISSING_FUN(__cxa_guard_abort)
-MISSING_FUN(__cxa_guard_acquire)
-MISSING_FUN(__cxa_guard_release)
-MISSING_FUN(__cxa_thread_finalize)
-MISSING_FUN(__fsetxattr)
-MISSING_FUN(__libc_stdio_cleanup)
-MISSING_FUN(_Z21__libc_shared_globalsv)
-MISSING_FUN(getentropy)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawn_file_actions_init)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawnattr_destroy)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawnattr_init)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawnattr_setflags)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault)
-MISSING_FUN(posix_spawnp)
-MISSING_FUN(statx)
+// Bionic defines these functions in its static libc.a, including private
+// startup routines absent from the API-specific shared libc.so stubs. Keep
+// the extern/SYM references below so GHCi uses the same real libc state;
+// defining MISSING_FUN replacements here would shadow those implementations.
 
 typedef void SymbolAddr;
 typedef char SymbolName;