This patch implements Jason's suggestion of pushing a lambda scope when parsing a global variable initializer. That bit worked fine, but happened to cause g++.dg/opt/dump1.C to not give any used-but-not-defined warnings. The reason was no_linkage_check, which considers any lambda that has an extra-scope to have linkage. Which is technically correct. Except that we think that all types that have linkage have external linkage. Our representation of linkage and visibility is somewhat inaccurate, particularly when it comes to types. We have TREE_PUBLIC, DECL_EXTERNAL, DECL_VISIBILITY, DECL_COMDAT, DECL_NOT_REALLY_EXTERN. It could really do with a through cleanup, but that won't be a simple task. The best I could come up with was seeing if the extra scope was a VAR_DECL, and if that was TREE_PUBLIC and the var was inline (its COMDATness is sadly not set at that point) or a template instantiation, then the lambda had linkage. Otherwise it's as-if it has no-linkage from the POV of compiler internals. This is an ABI change (so we should document it), but it's changing mangling from an unpredictable (in practice) counter, to something the ABI defines. So I'm not concerned about mangling-changed warnings, or preserving the broken mangling under some ABI selection flag. Code that did this worked by accident within a single TU. It'll continue to work by design there, and across TUs. booted on x86_64-linux, I'll commit in a few days if there are no comments. nathan -- Nathan Sidwell