> I'd been compiling -current kernels for i386 with -O6
> -feliminate-frame-pointer between approximately 8 months.  I stopped
> and went back to -O2 sometime in about May, after installing the
> 'upgrade' to gcc 2.7.2.2, because it caused kernel crashes.  I _think_
> all the machines that crased had 3c595s.    

The problems that i've run into have been with the default i386
optimization, i.e. -O2.  (You didn't say, but implied, that -O2 worked
for you.)


chris