Zachary Amsden wrote:

It was 2.6.21.4, so it is fairly recent, but with 32-bit decompress 
stage.  GCC was 4.2.0.

Sounds like a gcc bug, to me.

I would argue that anything that causes a function and its callsite to
diverge, when they're part of the same file, is a gcc bug almost by
definition.

That doesn't mean it's not a problem and that there is not a solution --
if nothing else there should be a patch for -stable.

	-hpa