> tarballs -> the things one gets from ftp.netbsd.org in tar_files/src. These
> are the current (April 30) releases.  I have only 32-bit memory.  It's not
> cpp; it's as that produces the error messages.  Things like "unterminated
> character constant" and the like.  Looks like the assembler is confused, to
> me.

That was happening with 1.0, too (at least on my system).  as seems to
complain about every source line with odd number of ' chars on it (even
if the chars are in comments).  No harm is done and you can get rid of
the warnings by editing locore.s and removing the ' characters from the
comments.

  -jm