By the way, I forgot to say that if someone with gcc expertise hasn't seen this bug on their machine but would like to try to track it down ... I have a machine on the net they can use. -- Phil Nelson NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org e-mail: phil@cs.wwu.edu LPF: http://www.lpf.org http://www.cs.wwu.edu/~phil !gifs: http://www.lpf.org/Patent/Gif/Gif.html