In Beta-4 Gcc 2.96 -fpermissibe flag seems to be broken. When compiling a code which is not ANSI complaint, using -fpermissive flag makes no difference. Although, if I use GCC 2.95.2 with -fpermissive flag the same code compiles. Therefore, I assume -fpermissive flag to downgrade gcc 2.96 performance to compile source code which is not strictly ANSI complaint, is broken. Suhaib
No test case, and PR is over 4 years old, so I don't believe that NEEDINFO is helpful.