Hi, It may be a known issue. Does gcc follow Section 5.1.6 Scope Encoding in C++ ABI:
http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling I tried the example. But it won't compile. I changed it to: [...@gnu-6 tmp]$ cat x.cc namespace N { inline char f(int i) { static const char *p = "Itanium C++ ABI"; // p = 1, "..." = 2 { struct X { // X = 3 void g() {} }; } return p[i]; } char foo (int i) { return f (i); } } [...@gnu-6 tmp]$ gcc -c x.cc [...@gnu-6 tmp]$ nm x.o 0000000000000000 W _ZN1N1fEi 0000000000000000 T _ZN1N3fooEi 0000000000000000 V _ZZN1N1fEiE1p U __gxx_personality_v0 [...@gnu-6 tmp]$ nm x.o | c++filt 0000000000000000 W N::f(int) 0000000000000000 T N::foo(int) 0000000000000000 V N::f(int)::p U __gxx_personality_v0 [...@gnu-6 tmp]$ It doesn't "_ZZN1N1fEiEs": encoding of N::f::"Itanium C++ ABI" (no discriminator) -- H.J.