------- Comment #4 from jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com 2009-08-10 17:05 ------- It's irrelevant to this bug and is just me being more pedantic than -pedantic, however ... even with -pedantic GCC has always accepted stray semi-colons at namespace scope, but it's not valid.
At function scope a lone ';' is a valid expression-statement, but expression-statements are not allowed at namespace scope, only declarations are, and ';' is not a valid declaration. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41020
