>>>>> Perry Smith writes: Perry> Its the _restf14 that gets me. Perry> It is pulled in from unwind_dw2.o of libgcc_eh.a. The IBM pubs tells Perry> me its part of the floating point linkage convention. Perry> So, it sounds to me like I need to recompile libgcc_eh.a with the Perry> soft-float option. Maybe. The EH mechanism in GCC is prepared to save and restore FPRs because that might appear in a user program. In your particular situation, you do not want to touch FPRs, so soft-float might work if you truly never reference floating point in your code. David