Re: gcc -profile never finishes linking

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mike Castle wrote:

> >For a short-term solution, you may want to try -pg instead of
> >-profile.  -profile tries to use profiling versions of libc and libm
> >--- those have a higher likelihood of being broken than the stock
> >versions.
> 
> On the other hand, the attitude of the glibc folks *seems* to be that using
> -pg is deprecated and one should use -profile.
> 
> At least that was my interpretation of certain posts to the glibc list.

Where does one learn about -profile, how is it different from -pg, and 
why is it a good idea to deprecate it?  For starters, I cannot find 
anything about -profile in the Info docs distributed with GCC 2.95.2.