This article is from the SSH - Secure Shell FAQ, by Thomas Koenig Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de with numerous contributions by others.
This is a bug in gcc 2.7.0, which causes it to generated incorrect
code without optimization. Supply the "-O" or "-O -g" options to gcc
when compiling. Alternatively, upgrade to gcc 2.7.2.
 
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