Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 09:40:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jim Schwarz x3-7961 <schwarz AT escmail DOT orl DOT mmc DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Whare are the lib*_p.a files?
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On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Jim Schwarz x3-7961 wrote:

>  I been using DJGPP v1maint12 for about a month now. I was clean up by
> disk and saw that all the object libraries have two, seemly similar,
> versions, lib*.a and lib*_p.a.  Can someone tell me what the lib*_p.a 
> libraries are, or what they are used for?  

These are library functions compiled with profiling options; they are 
linked into your program when you compile it with -pg switch (to prepare 
it for profiling).