We study the overlap and the fixed point Dirac operators for massive fermions
in the two-flavor lattice Schwinger model. The masses of the triplet (pion) and
singlet (eta) bound states are determined down to small fermion masses and the
mass dependence is compared with various continuum model approximations. Near
the chiral limit, at very small fermion masses the fixed point operator has
stability problems, which in this study are dominated by finite size effects,Comment: 13 pages, 2 figure