The failure that I posted earlier for 8.0.0beta5 on Solaris 8/SPARC
with gcc-3.4.0 and -O3 can be worked around by disabling the interblock
scheduling. I used the following gcc options and 8.0.0beta5 built fine
on the SPARC Solaris 8 machine:
gcc -O3 -fno-sched-interblock ...
The Redhat 9 and Redhat Enterprise Linux worked with a plan -O3.
Note, all the previous 7.4.x versions built using a plain -O3 too
on SPARC/Solaris 8.
Ken Marshall