> <snip>
> > Actually, I believe that the final conclusion was that there was a
> > compiler bug, but that there were also problems with the gs source.  I
> > managed to get a working ghostcript with the 5.87 pre-release source after
> > the compiler had been patched, but I think you will be struggling with
> > 5.50.  There may be newer releases than 5.87 now.
> >
> > I've attached the compiler patch below.
> 
> Is this patch already in gcc-2.95.1 or do I have to hack it into place?
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 

Yes, but I don't think that has been integrated into the NetBSD source 
tree yet, and I would advise against trying to use a standard gcc 
distribution on NetBSD because of some interactions with the standard 
libraries and utilities.

Richard.