gcc-2.95 build FAILED! - RedHat Linux/Alpha 5.2

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < m3wvvf9ptb.fsf@vermis.bfr.co.il >you write:
  > But it was good enough three weeks ago, when gcc was in (apparent)
  > deep freeze! Is there any reason for losing backward compatibility in
  > such an abrupt way? Binutils is a major package we are definitely not
  > going to upgrade it unless such an upgrade is critical - we are
  > talking about production systems... This basically rules out
  > *previous* (read, "stable") release of a major Linux distribution...
The assembler is broken, plain and simple.  Get a newer one.  There may be
a way to disable those instructions, but I wouldn't know what it is since
I do not normally work on alphas,

jeff