> here's a trivial test case in case anyone wants to track this down :-) Please post to binutils. I'm tied up for a bit trying to track a ld bug on hppa64. I've managed to break gcc when using gnu ld :( Sometimes HP stuff works better. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc.ca National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6605)