Attached are two patches from Gentoo that fix build problems with gcc-4*

Perhaps a better solution is to fix the actual code rather than require a patch.

That may be true...but it wouldn't happen for this version. That wouldn't make any sense. It should however be included in a future version.

I had to make one change to your patch to make it work for gcc 4.4.5 thanks for it though, it helped a lot.