My"C" Compiled can't compile "{}"

[Paul McFerrin]

I discover my C compiler is broken while performing a "configure".

$ echo "{}" >test.c
$ cc -O test.c -o test
test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -V test.c -o test
cc: couldn't run 'i686-pc-cygwin-gcc-test.c': No such file or directory
/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -v test.c -o test
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-pc-cygwin
Configured with: 
/gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4/configure 
--srcdir=/gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4 
--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin 
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var 
--sysconfdir=/etc --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man 
--datadir=/usr/share --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man 
-v --with-gmp=/usr --with-mpfr=/usr --enable-bootstrap 
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-slibdir=/usr/bin 
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-static --enable-shared 
--enable-shared-libgcc --disable-__cxa_atexit --with-gnu-ld 
--with-gnu-as --with-dwarf2 --disable-sjlj-exceptions 
--enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++ --disable-symvers 
--enable-libjava --program-suffix=-4 --enable-libgomp --enable-libssp 
--enable-libada --enable-threads=posix --with-arch=i686 
--with-tune=generic --enable-libgcj-sublibs CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4 
CC_FOR_TARGET=gcc-4 CXX_FOR_TARGET=g++-4 GNATMAKE_FOR_TARGET=gnatmake 
GNATBIND_FOR_TARGET=gnatbind AS=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/as.exe 
AS_FOR_TARGET=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/as.exe LD=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/ld.exe 
LD_FOR_TARGET=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/ld.exe 
--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/ecj.jar
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1 (GCC)
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-o' 'test.exe' '-mtune=generic' '-march=i686'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/cc1.exe -quiet -v -D__CYGWIN32__ 
-D__CYGWIN__ -Dunix -D__unix__ -D__unix -idirafter 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../include/w32api -idirafter 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api 
test.c -quiet -dumpbase test.c -mtune=generic -march=i686 -auxbase test 
-version -o /c/DOCUME~1/Paul/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccb2jZrY.s
ignoring nonexistent directory 
"/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/include"
ignoring duplicate directory 
"/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/include-fixed
/usr/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../include/w32api
End of search list.
GNU C (GCC) version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
compiled by GNU C version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1, GMP version 4.3.1, 
MPFR version 2.4.1-p5.
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072
Compiler executable checksum: d5cdab7e958df0270fe64611765e0bb6
test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token

This is a 1.7.1-1 system.


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