Synopsis: Syntax error at line 23 of file 'access.conf' State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 14 10:31:36 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: This is a known bug in some versions of IBM's AIX C compiler. They are aware of it and are looking into fixing it.
In the meantime, the workaround you suggests works but shouldn't be necessary.
