>> you can get a new ld from the ftp server [...]
>> i suggest using the binary fix from todd.. :)
> 
> I looked on the FTP server.  I couldn't find any "binary [ld] fix from Todd".
> 
> Where is it hiding?

<*embarassed blush*>

Never mind, found it in pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/patches/sparc64-compfix.tgz.

Compiling works now.  Thanks Matt & Eduardo (and Todd).

	- Greg (who thinks it's funny/ironic that "cc hw.c" on an ELF system
		produces "a.out" still, after all these years, even though
		it's no longer using a.out format  (-: )