linux 2.1.117 built with egcs-1.1 19980823

[Joern Rennecke]

> I thought that the gcc2.7 problems which required -fno-strength-reduce
> on x86 had been fixed before egcs 1.0.  Or am I missing something ?

-fno-strength-reduce was never required on the x86, but it works around
some problems in biv elimination.
These problems have been obscured, but not cured.  Look at the loop-[23]*
failures from the c-torture testsuite.