http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43038
--- Comment #8 from Dmitry Gorbachev <d.g.gorbachev at gmail dot com> 2011-03-01 12:46:39 UTC --- > The problem is that statics need to be mangled, so they persist > as i.1234 instead. Really refering to a local symbol in asm is > going to be difficult with LTO (any global or other static symbol > with name i will cause a non-resolvable conflict). One solution is to introduce a new attribute, say "nomangle", and shift responsibility for possible conflicts on a user.