Strange pedantic error message

[Mike Stump]

> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:27:18 +0100 (CET)
> From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

> In engineering it's almost always a bad idea to rely on a single
> source or ``vendor''. That's what standards are for.

Agreed.  The nice thing about the GNU family of compilers is that
there is no single source nor single vendor.  Anyone can be a vendor,
anyone can be a source.

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