>> There was an IBM paper about an approach to this that serves as a >> useful starting point. It is easily googled. Bryce> Also Dachuan Yu's paper* "Supporting Binary Compatibility with Static Bryce> Compilation"* Bryce> http://flint.cs.yale.edu/flint/publications/bincomp.html This is the paper I meant. For some reason I keep thinking it is IBM-related. I don't know why. I dug around a little and found this message: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2001-12/msg00209.html Tom