On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 jsc(a)arsdigita.com wrote: [snip] from the PROBLEMS file: ----- *** Don't use -O2 with gcc 2.8.1 and egcs 1.0 under SPARC architectures without also using `-fno-schedule-insns'. gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise, typically resulting in crashes in the function skip-syntax-backward. ----- we thought we had a workaround for this in 21.1. but obviously that does not always work. I think version of egcs starting with 1.1 are OK. So the best solution is to upgrade to gcc2.95 (is that officially out yet?) and to rebuild. Gunnar