Assembler error under Solaris 2.6 x86

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 14019.10322.666645.517536@saturn.hollstein.net >you write:

  > FWIW, your program doesn't segfault when linked with GNU ld 2.9.1 on
  > PC Solaris 2.7!  I'd say, look into Sun's list of recommended patches,
  > perhaps there is anything related with this...
  > 
  > I don't have access to a Sparc running Solaris 2.6 anymore, but I'll
  > try it via an old collegue of mine. We'll see.
Didn't someone very recently post a message about a (known) bug with
some versions of the Solaris linker?

jeff