Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: [Wed Feb 04 2004, 01:38:55PM EST] > Can't reproduce on my machine (i686-linux). Can you show us more info > about your platform and exact version (including date) of your interpreter? ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux-gnu] <<< actually an Athlon-XP CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [alphaev67-linux-gnu] CFLAGS="-mcpu=alphaev67 -mieee -O3 -pipe" I can built ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) on the same platforms with the same CFLAGS and it works fine. Aron