Chris, The attached patch eliminates warnings such as the following: In file included from /usr/include/g++-3/set:31, from ../main.cc:145: /usr/include/g++-3/stl_tree.h: In function `int __black_count(_Rb_tree_node_base *, _Rb_tree_node_base *)': /usr/include/g++-3/stl_tree.h:1258: warning: can't inline call to `int __black_count(_Rb_tree_node_base *, _Rb_tree_node_base *)' /usr/include/g++-3/stl_tree.h:1266: warning: called from here See the following for further motivation: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-05/msg00126.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-05/msg00127.html Would you be willing to accept this patch into the Cygwin gcc source tree? Thanks, Jason