------- Comment #1 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-10-11 10:26 ------- It cannot be a coumpounded type because of the definition of iconv_open which says it returns -1 for a falure.
" Otherwise iconv_open() returns (iconv_t)-1 and sets errno to indicate the error. " >From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/iconv_open.html Thanks, Andrew Pinski -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33734