> It sounds reasonable. I've encountered this problem in the past also, > but never with the Pro 2.1 / MIPS release which is what you're using. > I don't see anything obviously wrong with your test code, either. So... is there a fix for this? > Yes, you will need a newer toolchain. Honestly, I'm baffled as to why a > Pro 2.1 toolchain was available from our web site at all, unless you got > it via an old product subscription... it should have been Pro 3.0, which > uses GCC 3.2 and a more recent binutils. But I don't have any control > over these things :) I downloaded it about 5 days ago from: http://www.mvista.com/previewkit/index.html Could I get a preview kit of your 3.0 release for a Malta 4Kc board? nathan -- Nathan Field (ndf@ghs.com) All gone. But the trouble with analogies is that analogies are like goldfish: sometimes they have nothing to do with the topic at hand. -- Crispin (from a posting to the Bugtraq mailing list)