>So at this point, I haven't had any real indications of the kernel doing
>anything wrong, and egcs should be considered broken for now. I can be
>made to change my mind, but so far all the indications are that if you
>want a stable kernel you should not use egcs yet.
Hm, here works a linux kernel version 2.1.72 compiled with egcs-971207 on i486.
It's up now for 48h and stands heavy network traffic without any problems.
Servus,
Daniel