When compiled with gcc 2.96 clapack fails its built in tests. When compiled with 'kgcc' it doesn't fail these tests. clapack is a numerical library commonly used for high performance computing. http://www.netlib.org/clapack/
This looks like a bug in clapack, at least it builds and passes tests just fine if -fno-strict-aliasing is given to gcc, which most probably means clapack does some invalid type punning somewhere. I haven't analyzed it yet where is it doing, so I cannot say this for sure.
GCC 2.96-RH is now too old. If you are able to reproduce similar problems with contemporary GCC (3.4, 4.0), please reopen.