Correction. Contrary to my previous report, with egcs-1.1b it behaves the same as with gcc-2.8.1. That is it links well but gives Segmentation Fault. The reason for my previous linking problem, is that I built libstdc++ with -fsquangle and forgot to use it here. So we have the same bug in gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.1b. -- yotam