>Also compiling various development versions of perl has generated SEGVs, >and other problems, usually solvable by using gcc more recent than >gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)
I've just made up a patchfile to include the latest ARM stuff in the Debian gcc package. It's probably too late to package this up properly for 2.2r1 but I will send it off to the maintainers so at least it goes into the unstable archive. (We can pull the package back to stable in time for 2.2r2, I guess.) p.