diff --git a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
index 362890404..de3391b1c 100644
--- a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-02-13  Danny Smith  <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* profile/Makefile.in (mcount,o): Use -O1 optimization
+	switch to compile.
+
 2003-02-10  Danny Smith  <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	* include/math.h: Remove _CRTIMP from pow() prototype,
diff --git a/winsup/mingw/profile/Makefile.in b/winsup/mingw/profile/Makefile.in
index c7f3a0c7f..3fe9170de 100644
--- a/winsup/mingw/profile/Makefile.in
+++ b/winsup/mingw/profile/Makefile.in
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ gcrt1.o: gcrt0.c
 gcrt2.o: gcrt0.c
 	$(CC) -D__MSVCRT__ -c -o $@ $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $?
 
+#FIXME: Optimizing at higher than -O1 tweaks a bug in gcc 3.2.2
+# and earlier
+mcount.o: mcount.c
+	$(CC)  -c -o $@ $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -O1 $?
+
 Makefile: Makefile.in config.status configure
 	$(SHELL) config.status