-----Original Message----- That's a pretty old kernel, so I guess you are using a pretty old version of the compiler. There have been a couple of issues over the years where the compiler ran out of registers to allocate in the embedded assembly language, and compilation failed. I haven't seen that for quite a while, though. Because the error refers to a line in a temporary file, at the time the output of the compiler is assembled, its hard to relate to the line number specified. Finding the cause of your error will probably require inspecting that temporary file in more detail.
Steve
Thank you for the hints Steve. For the records this is my environment at the moment: gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-11) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) Regards, Claudio Internet Email Confidentiality Footer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- La presente comunicazione, con le informazioni in essa contenute e ogni documento o file allegato, e' rivolta unicamente alla/e persona/e cui e' indirizzata ed alle altre da questa autorizzata/e a riceverla. Se non siete i destinatari/autorizzati siete avvisati che qualsiasi azione, copia, comunicazione, divulgazione o simili basate sul contenuto di tali informazioni e' vietata e potrebbe essere contro la legge (art. 616 C.P., D.Lgs n. 196/2003 Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali). Se avete ricevuto questa comunicazione per errore, vi preghiamo di darne immediata notizia al mittente e di distruggere il messaggio originale e ogni file allegato senza farne copia alcuna o riprodurne in alcun modo il contenuto. This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and are confidential and/or may contain legally privileged information. If you have received this message by mistake or are not one of the addressees above, you may take no action based on it, and you may not copy or show it to anyone; please reply to this e-mail and point out the error which has occurred. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------