>Yay! Out of curiousity, would ash be a suitable replacement in any >way? I grepped the sources for (float|double) and didn't find >anything of note... Are there other things to look for? If you compile with glibc you will get a bit of floating point code in the initialisation of *every* binary. You're right that with libc4 it worked to use ash without floating point but on a newer system it won't even start. p.