Sorry to trouble you folks; I'm trying to if GCC presently supports loop fusion for either C or C++ problems and, if so, what the limitations of that optimization are in practice. The manual page at: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.0/gcc/ doesn't give me much hope. So, if you can point me at a statement on that support, it'll make my life easier. Thanks, Bob