g77 char expr. as arg to subroutine bug

[craig@jcb-sc.com]

>The following bug is in all snapshots starting
>from April 18.  I have only tested this on Alpha linux,
>and with FFECOM_FASTER_ARRAY_REFS set to 1.

I checked in a fix for this a few hours ago, to both the mainline and
the release (gcc-2.95) branch.

        tq vm, (burley)