http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54638
--- Comment #8 from Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf dot de> 2012-09-20 17:52:11 UTC --- 4.6.3 also fails to build with the same error. I guess 4.8 would also fail if it still could be build without C++. % ~/gcc/configure --disable-werror --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c --disable-bootstrap % make is sufficient to reproduce.