I get the following text when I try to compile the included file:

g++  -O3 -Wall -I.   -c -o log10_linear.o log10_linear.c
log10_linear.c: In function `int fm_log10_v_linear(float *, float *,
int)':
log10_linear.c:187: Internal compiler error:
log10_linear.c:187: Internal compiler error in `convert_move', at
expr.c:570
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html > for instructions.
make: *** [log10_linear.o] Error 1

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My compiler:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release/franzo)

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Here is the more complete output:
g++  -O3 -Wall -I.   -c -o log10_linear.o -v -save-temps log10_linear.c
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release/franzo)
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.2/cpp -lang-c++ -v
-I. -D__GNUC__=2
-D__GNUG__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=95 -D__cplusplus -DPPC -D__ELF__ -Dpowerpc
-D__PPC__ -D__ELF__ -D__powerpc__ -D__PPC -D__powerpc
-Acpu(powerpc) -Amachine(powerpc) -D__EXCEPTIONS -D__CHAR_UNSIGNED__
-D__OPTIMIZE__ -Wall -D_CALL_SYSV -D_BIG_ENDIAN -D__BIG_ENDIAN__
-Amachine(bigendian) -D_ARCH_PPC -D__unix__ -D__linux__ -Dunix -Dlinux
-Asystem(unix) -Asystem(posix) log10_linear.c log10_linear.ii
GNU CPP version 2.95.2 19991024 (release/franzo) (PowerPC GNU/Linux)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 .
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.2/../../../../include/g++-3
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.2/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
The following default directories have been omitted from the search path:
 /usr/local/include

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.2/../../../../ppc-yellowdog-linux/include
End of omitted list.
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.2/cc1plus log10_linear.ii
-quiet -dumpbase log10_linear.cc -O3 -Wall -version -o log10_linear.s
GNU C++ version 2.95.2 19991024
(release/franzo) (ppc-yellowdog-linux) compiled by GNU C version 2.95.2
19991024 (release/franzo).
log10_linear.c: In function `int fm_log10_v_linear(float *, float *,
int)':
log10_linear.c:187: Internal compiler error:
log10_linear.c:187: Internal compiler error in `convert_move', at
expr.c:570
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html > for instructions.

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PS: This code compiles and runs fine on intel, however we have also
encountered strange interactions between log10_linear() and fprintf on
sparc (although the code compiles without warning).

Thanks very much for your efforts,
Dave.