------- Comment #3 from simon_baldwin at yahoo dot com 2007-11-15 19:55 ------- The definition's really there in 4.2.1, absent in 4.1.1:
$ 4.2.1/g++ -S ns1.cc && c++filt <ns1.s | grep B::x movl $0, (anonymous namespace)::B::x .local (anonymous namespace)::B::x .comm (anonymous namespace)::B::x,4,4 $ 4.1.1/g++ -S ns1.cc && c++filt <ns1.s | grep B::x movl $0, (anonymous namespace)::B::x -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34094