Hello, In my previous posts I was unsuccessfully trying to compile a C file, because of a possible bug in gcc. gcc generated an invalid assembler label. So now I am trying to compile & link the files the manual way. I run 'cc1' on my source file, no problem. I manually edit the .s (assembler) file and correct the invalid label problem, and run 'as' on the result. Again, no problem. However, when I use the exact same collect2 command & parameters as gcc uses when linking, all I get is a '/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value' error. Is there a way of finding out where exactly things go wrong? The error message is not really descriptive... Thanks for any help! Martin