>>>>> Mark Mitchell writes: Mark> If GAS/LD requires fixing, we may, unfortunately, have to scrap Mark> merging this stuff in for GCC 3.0. Of course, we also need to make Mark> sure that non-GNU linkers and assemblers work satisfactorily with the Mark> new code. Mark, we already know that GCC 3.0 requires development versions of GNU Assembler for other, primary platforms. David