good evening Nick: i checked and the veneer code generation problem described in SourceWare BugZilla bug 6727 has not yet been fixed in binutils-2.18, and that's the latest stable release.
lets see if i can get the latest sources from CVS and then if i can build and use it. i will get back to you on this, Aaron -- {tel: +91-20-6526-7076; cell: +91-9970-591-079; fax: +1-800-450-5419}