Just fall into the same pit... My limit was stacksize=512k. After an `unlimit stack' (stacksize=262144k) it worked. There is a section `#ifdef RLIMIT_STACK ... #endif' in ld.c. Looks like this section should be enabled ... -- Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)