>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
    Paul> 
    Paul> Just to confirm, are you running Mac OS X 10.3.9 ("Panther")?

"uname -a" says:

Darwin osxexp2 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc

    Paul> Could you please the output of gcc -E on that file? Something
    Paul> like this:
    Paul> 
    Paul> gcc -E -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. \
    Paul> -I/Volumes/UFS_exp2/exptools/expmake/build/gnuemacs2src/emacs-24.3/lib \
    Paul> -I../src \
    Paul> -I/Volumes/UFS_exp2/exptools/expmake/build/gnuemacs2src/emacs-24.3/src \
    Paul> -I/opt/exp/gnu/include   -g3 -O2 careadlinkat.c

here's the preprocessor output: