In article <199708041855.NAA23764@lotharon.endicor.com> you write:
> I should have been paying more attention when this went by the first
> time...
> 
> I'm about to update to -current on a 3c590-equipped system. Before I do
> that, what's the status of the elink3/mbuf changes/gcc bug situation? Am
> I correct it's still unfixed, but that there is a workaround patch
> somewhere? I couldn't find a related PR...

I dug through the port-i386 archives and found the answer. I also found
Charles's mail saying he couldn't reproduce the problem. So, I decided
first to do nothing and see. Lo and behold, it works just fine compiled
with -O2 and no patches.