In message <199908221300.PAA03963@sean.ebone.net>, Sean Doran writes:
>What if you do -fkeep-inline-functions instead of "CFLAGS=-O2" in the
>same Makefile?

I wouldn't expect that to work, it's not inline.

>(Another approach which worked for me when I got bit by this was
>to remove the "static" before the prototype and definition of
>___start in crt0.o.   I figure that if it's needed outside the module,
>it shouldn't be static in the first place, no?)

Ahh, but it's not needed outside the module!  It's only ever legitimately
called by one thing - an assembly hook in the same module.

-s