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> 
> I got a complaint from an atari-user about this too. The problem seems
> to be the absence of '-O2' compiler option. It was some time ago, but
> I think it was because gcc does not turn those functions into 'in-lines'
> when not optimizing. This combined with the '-Wall' option results in this
> rather annoying (an wrong) behaviour.
> 
> Leo.
> 

Actually, in all honesty & stupidity, I remembered to take a look, and 
noticed that I have COPTS=-m68040 setenv'd .. this conflicted, 
apparently, and seems to compile up & work fine (using the compiled 
kernel now) once I removed the COPTS env variable.

Thanks for answering anyways. :)

/mike/