diff --git a/openpower/package/hostboot/p8Patches/hostboot-0003-Default-to-std-gnu-03.patch b/openpower/package/hostboot/p8Patches/hostboot-0003-Default-to-std-gnu-03.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6c6710
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openpower/package/hostboot/p8Patches/hostboot-0003-Default-to-std-gnu-03.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From bc7b8b21549752274b162c64dbce3c81d20f2cab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:22:30 +1000
+Subject: [PATCH 03/10] Default to std=gnu++03
+
+Seeing as no C++ dialect was previously selected, GCC < 6 defaulted
+to GNU++98 as the standard C++ mode. However... it seems that C++03
+is a better match for HostBoot code (confirmed by Patrick Williams
+in https://github.com/open-power/hostboot/pull/62#discussion_r76830612 )
+
+Change-Id: I6661b5b61319c85c2a90926beb6e2662e96dcf06
+Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+---
+ src/build/mkrules/cflags.env.mk | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/build/mkrules/cflags.env.mk b/src/build/mkrules/cflags.env.mk
+index c805999..0bae0ec 100644
+--- a/src/build/mkrules/cflags.env.mk
++++ b/src/build/mkrules/cflags.env.mk
+@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ CFLAGS += $(COMMONFLAGS) -mcpu=power7 -nostdinc -g -mno-vsx -mno-altivec\
+ 	  -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -ffreestanding -mbig-endian
+ ASMFLAGS += $(COMMONFLAGS) -mcpu=power7 -mbig-endian
+ CXXFLAGS += $(CFLAGS) -nostdinc++ -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall \
+-	    -fuse-cxa-atexit
++	    -fuse-cxa-atexit -std=gnu++03
+ LDFLAGS += --nostdlib --sort-common -EB $(COMMONFLAGS)
+ 
+ INCFLAGS = $(addprefix -I, $(INCDIR) )
+-- 
+2.7.4
+