http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59668
Bug ID: 59668 Summary: extraneous error messages at -O1, -O2 and -O3 for valid code with string library functions Product: gcc Version: 4.9.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: su at cs dot ucdavis.edu The current trunk and older GCC versions reject the following code with odd error messages at -O1, -O2 and -O3 (but not -O0 and -Os). $ gcc-trunk -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc-trunk COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/gcc-trunk/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-trunk/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-trunk --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-werror --enable-multilib Thread model: posix gcc version 4.9.0 20140103 (experimental) [trunk revision 206321] (GCC) $ $ gcc-trunk -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99 -c small.c $ $ gcc-trunk -O0 -c small.c $ gcc-trunk -Os -c small.c $ $ gcc-trunk -O1 -c small.c In file included from /usr/include/string.h:637:0, from small.c:1: small.c:3:5: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘__extension__’ int strcmp(const char *, const char *); ^ small.c:3:5: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘)’ token int strcmp(const char *, const char *); ^ $ ----------------------- #include <string.h> int strcmp(const char *, const char *);