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brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com wrote:
> I made the mistake of upgrading from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 and
> now a number of programs are broken, including gnat:
> 
>

This is most likely due to the default state of the exec shield.

Check out this discussion (it has pointers into the GCC forums as well)

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1479304&forum_id=40858

Original submitter on that thread is still convinced there is a bug. I 
am not so sure I would call it a bug but I understand his basic premise.