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Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:45:13 +0100
From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo DOT graziosi AT alice DOT it>
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Subject: GCC, '-pg' option and 'mcount' undefined
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For the sake of completeness, I want to flag the following issue I have 
found on Cygwin.

I have an application that doesn't build on Cygwin (gcc-4.5.3) because 
undefined reference to `_mcount' etc... I have tried to reproduce it 
with this simple example:

$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("Hello World\n");
}

$ gcc -c -pg hello.c
$ gcc hello.o -o hello
hello.o:hello.c:(.text+0xa): undefined reference to `_mcount'
hello.o:hello.c:(.text+0xf): undefined reference to `__monstartup'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

If I try the same above example (and the true application) on Mac OS X 
Lion with gcc-4.5.3 or on GNU Linux distributions like Fedora14 (gcc 
4.5.1), Kubuntu (gcc-4.6.1), Ubuntu (i386, gcc-4.6.1), it works just fine,

$ ./hello
Hello World

If I want to build the above example on Cygwin, I need to link using the 
same option '-pg',

$ gcc -pg hello.o -o hello
$ ./hello
Hello World

Yes, I can patch my true application to use '-pg' option when it needs, 
but I would know if you (Dave?) have other ideas here.

Thanks,
   Angelo.

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