>compilation has some known non-trivial to fix bugs, I recall).  Note,
>this is only the compiler, I may go on to get current gas & binutils
>to work for cross-compilation as well, but I cannot guarantee that,
>unless I get a sponsor (hint! ;-) ).  The traditional problem with
>cross-assembling & linking is endian problems, I don't know if the
>NetBSD tools deal well with this...

Back years ago when I ran Linux (ugg) I had a cross compilation environment
set up from sparc->x86. By now the patches for gas and such should be in
the binutils tree. If not, recreating them wouldn't be too much work and
I may look into it.

James