-profile vs. -pg

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199809102107.OAA18767@wealhtheow.cacr.caltech.edu >you write:
  > 
  > I just installed egcs-1.1b on a Linux 2.1 system. I observe the following:
  > 
  > It appears that the '-pg' flag does not tell the driver (gcc) to link
  > with the -lc_p libraries.
  > 
  > It appears that the '-profile' flag does tell the driver to link with -lc_p.
  > 
  > It appears that the '-profile' flag also implies -p (not -pg) during
  > compilation.
  > 
  > The -profile flag is not mentioned in the man page or info pages.
  > 
  > This leads to some rather strange results (i.e., bugs):
Sigh.  It's too bad Linux broke tradition in this regard.  Most other
unix systems link with profiling libraries when -pg is enabled.

Can someone fix the documentation?  I suspect -profile is probably
a Linux specific hack, so I'm not really sure where the doc fixes
belong.

jeff