From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: g++: unrecognized option `- fpermissive' Interestingly, it there is a nonvisible character in that message as well, right after the hyphen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.g++ -fpermissive 2. 3. Additional info:
Works just fine for me. Are you sure you haven't typed an invisible character on the command line or something? If not, I really need a self-contained reproducer.
Xemacs shell was doing something strange. Sorry, please ignore.