Okay.. fixed the assembly warning messages. My asm reference says that .comm can accept an optional third parameter (for alignment), but apparently, mingw doens't like it. So I'm just doing the alignment with .align.

And I confirmed it.. the static is not due to your stream. There's something funky MinGW is doing that Linux-GCC doesn't, is all that I can guess. I'll look through the code to see if there's anything non-standard it's doing.