bug with asm statment in egcs-1.0.2

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9804241207.AA26253@moene.indiv.nluug.nl >you write:
  > >  That leaves me curious as to what problems the RedHat
  > >  people are having that are considered sufficiently
  > >  showstopping to warrant forcing a new compiler release.
  > 
  > Although the 1.0.3 release will contain a bugfix for the Alpha, it  
  > is in the Fortran Frontend, and not Linux specific at all.
Right.  It's the "negative index patch".   It's a generic fix to the
Fortran front end.  It's something we'd tried to fix in 1.0.2, but
got it wrong :(  And apparently it is something that RedHat gets
lots of complaints about.

  > No, I suspect that the problems that have to be solved by 1.0.3 are  
  > entirely due to the i666, the architecture of the Beast (1/2 :-)
Basically true.

jeff