c++/8549: --pedantic-errors problems on RedHat 6.1

[Zack Weinberg]

The following reply was made to PR c++/8549; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: bangerth@dealii.org
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, mengel@fnal.gov, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/8549: --pedantic-errors problems on RedHat 6.1
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:14:42 -0800

 bangerth@dealii.org writes:
 
 >     So I think, the whole thing is attributable to the following:
 >     Somewhen an extension in gcc was deprecated and the kernel
 >     folks changed their header files accordingly.I think the
 >     only way to make newer gccs work on these old systems
 >     would be to fixinclude the respective header files, but I
 >     doubt someone would like to put much energy in backporting
 >     gcc to such old systems.
 
 Note that the kernel has nothing to do with this.  The header
 bits/mathinline.h is part of GNU libc.
 
 zw