gcj problems RedHat 6.1 i386, gcc version 2.96 20000415 (ag-tools experimental)

[Jason Venner <jason at idiom dot com>]

I have a port of an older version of the jdk1.2 collections package
that works with 1.1. The one that is included here has been further
cut down to remoe the object{Input|Output}Stream references
gcj gets a signal 11 compiling 
The hardware in question is very stable and does not exhibit any known
memory problems, even when running large memory intensive applications
(like perlcc, which can use 3x the system ram)

Also, when I switch to using a Hashtable this runs about 50% slower
with gcj than with the ibm jdk1.3, also if I compile -O I get an
instant Aborted message when I run the resulting binary.
The code runs about 3% slower if I use the 1.3 Hashtables, instead of
the 1.3 HashMap's


(setenv CLASSPATH ..:.: ;/usr/local/ag/bin/gcj -g -C -v '-L/usr/local/ag/lib' *.class )
Reading specs from /usr/local/ag/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000415 (ag-tools experimental)
 /usr/local/ag/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/jc1 AbstractCollection.class -quiet -g -version -fsyntax-only -femit-class-files -o AbstractCollection.s
GNU Java version 2.96 20000415 (ag-tools experimental) (i386-redhat-linux) compiled by GNU C version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release).
gcj: Internal compiler error: program jc1 got fatal signal 11

bzip'd tar file of the source files