Global Scope Bug in egcs 1.1.1?

[Martin v. Loewis]

> When I try to compile code that uses the explicit global scope operator, 
> e.g. "::errno", g++ from egcs 1.1.1 complains of a "parse error before 
> (". This is consistent between compiling with -fhonor-std and without. 
> Is this a known bug, some weird problem with the compiler 
> options/makefile, or an unknown bug?

What platform? I propose to look at the preprocessor output.

Martin