Much kudos and increased karma this week goes to Jeff Horwitz for finding the source of the problems in sqlite on Solaris/Sparc. I didn't know anything about this problem (turns out it's a gcc bug with over aggressive optimisation), and while I watched over their shoulders Jeff and D. Richard Hipp (author of SQLite) sorted the problem out in double-quick time.
And Jeff's a nice guy too - I owe him a beer.
