Jan-Jaap,
Thanks for your interest and help.
You asked for the version of `as': 2.7, using BFD 2.7.0.2. And the version of `gcc': 2.7.2.1
This latter surprised me, since I downloaded the source code for 2.7.2.3.
Tom
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