Hi! Imho the problem is exactly what you are saying, a bug in gcc. 3.2.2 or later works (for me it does) , 2.95.x works too. > I'm running Mandrake 9.0 with gcc 3.2.1, binutils 2.12 ... ( iknow it's > not the suggested one but i don't think it's matter in my case) > (AMD Athlon 1GHz) bye Denes