I get this with the gcc 4.3 snapshot from 20071130 when compiling thunderbird: leto:/home/chtephan > LANG=C g++ -o breaks.o -c breaks.i -O2 -march=pentium-m -fPIC nsUnicodeToJamoTTF.cpp: In function ‘const JamoNormMap* JamoClusterSearch(JamoNormMap, const JamoNormMap*, PRInt16)’: nsUnicodeToJamoTTF.cpp:811: error: unable to find a register to spill in class ‘Q_REGS’ nsUnicodeToJamoTTF.cpp:811: error: this is the insn: (insn:HI 209 207 211 2 nsUnicodeToJamoTTF.cpp:783 (parallel [ (set (subreg:SI (reg:QI 134) 0) (lshiftrt:SI (reg:SI 4 si [136]) (const_int 8 [0x8]))) (clobber (reg:CC 17 flags)) ]) 358 {*lshrsi3_1} (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:SI 4 si [136]) (expr_list:REG_UNUSED (reg:CC 17 flags) (nil)))) -- Summary: spill failure with -O2 -fPIC -march=pentium-m on i386 Product: gcc Version: 4.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: target AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: christophe at saout dot de GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34312