I filed Apple bug 7070016 for this.

I wrote:
> I spent a little bit more time with this to be able to come up with a
> reduced testcase.  The plan is to file a bug with Apple on the
> toolchain part of the issue.  Eventually, I realized that all four of
> the cases were the same toolchain issue.
>
> V8's use of statics inside inline functions was not improper.  A
> program will only wind up with one definition of such static data when
> it occurs inside methods and static methods, even when inlined, per
> the C++ spec.  This is different from the behavior of static data
> inside inlined C functions.
>
> The actual toolchain bug is as I described it before.  Knowing what I
> now know about it, I can say that I can't find any other affected
> static variables within mksnapshot.  It's possible that others are
> present in other areas of v8, however.
>
> The fix I sent out yesterday that's now been rolled into v8 still
> appears to me to be the best way to work around this bug.  I just
> wanted to make clear to everyone that the old code was not wrong, it
> just happened to trigger a bug in the Apple toolchain

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