egcs 1.1b (2.91.57), g++ -pedantic issues possibly extraneous error

[E. Jay Berkenbilt]

I am using egcs 1.1b as compiled by someone else and uploaded to
contrib.redhat.com.  egcs --version, gcc --version, g++ --version say
egcs-2.91.57.

The following program:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <vector>

struct A
{
    A(int a) : a(a) {};
    int a;
};

template <class T>
static int count_a0(vector<T*> const& v)
{
    int result = 0;
    vector<T*>::const_iterator iter;
    for (iter = v.begin(); iter != v.end(); ++iter)
    {
	if ((*iter)->a == 0)
	{
	    ++result;
	}
    }
    return result;
}

int main()
{
    vector<A*> v;
    v.push_back(new A(0));
    v.push_back(new A(1));
    v.push_back(new A(2));
    v.push_back(new A(1));
    v.push_back(new A(0));

    cout << count_a0(v) << endl;
}
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Compiles and runs properly without -pedantic.  With -pedantic, you get

a.cc: In function `int count_a0(const class vector<T *,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > &)':
a.cc:14: parse error before `;'
a.cc: In function `int count_a0<A>(const class vector<A *,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > &)':
a.cc:34:   instantiated from here
a.cc:15: `iter' undeclared (first use this function)
a.cc:15: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
a.cc:15: for each function it appears in.)
a.cc:15: confused by earlier errors, bailing out

gcc 2.7.2.3 accepted this with -pedantic.  I don't believe there is
anything in the ANSI spec that would warrant an error here.

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