Hello!

This PR is about missing USER_LABEL_PREFIX for static variables. The issue
was fixed for 4.0, but for 3.4 there won't be a fix as stated in the audit
trail by Mark Mitchell in comment #15. He probably based his decision on
comment #14, where Geoff Keating states that this bug does only affect
debugging programs that don't have full debugging info. That conclusion is
wrong, the bug has a much more severe impact! A missing USER_LABEL_PREFIX
can led to assembler errors if the variable name matches the name of
a machine register if registers are used without a prefix and thats the
default for a.out systems. This bug prevents using GCC 3.4 on targets
with a nonzero USER_LABEL_PREFIX safely. Since 3.4 is the last 3.x
version it should be usable on such system safely.

A proposed patch in comment #7 was rejected in comment #8 without giving
any details what problems the patch might cause. Can this bug get fixed
with minimal efforts?

Gunther

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