Compiler errors after upgrading from GCC 3.4 to GCC 4.1

[Devendra Badhani]

Hello GCC gurus,

When I upgraded gcc from 3.4 to 4.1, I see some errors which were
earlier reported as warnings.

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 ***.h:787: error: static declaration of foo follows non-static declaration
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The function foo is declared as extern and defined as static.

I know this is not correct, and the right way to fix is to remove
static from the definition. But this is some legacy code I don't have
much control over and there's tons of it.  Is there a way I could
suppress this error, or make it a warning?

Thanks much,
Deven