Re: -profile

[Andreas Jaeger]

Mike Castle <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:08:14PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > I'm always confused with -pg and -profile but at least the linker
> 
> -profile gets you libc_p.  -pg does just your program.  But I get the
> impression that -profile is used on Linux only.  From coming across posts
> by Ulrich, he seems to understand it a little bit more.  Perhaps he could
> explain why there is a difference?
> 
> > shouldn't go in an endless loop.
> 
> True.  :->
> 
> But since -static causes it to succeed, I wasn't sure at what level the
> glibc dynamic linker comes into play.  Does it play a role during linking
> at all or only during runtime?

libc_p.a is a static library.  The dynamic linker is only used at
runtime but has to be noted in the dynamic program.  Might be that
here lies the problem...

Andreas
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