diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index fb99af08af15..56aaca560aa9 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-12-17  Jan-Benedict Glaw  <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
+
+	* varasm.c (pending_assemble_externals_processed): Guard
+	with ASM_OUTPUT_EXTERNAL.
+
 2012-12-17  Andrew Stubbs  <ams@codesourcery.com>
 	    Ulrich Weigand  <ulrich.weigand@linaro.org>
 
diff --git a/gcc/varasm.c b/gcc/varasm.c
index daeb6e2a8297..53ebfbf2629a 100644
--- a/gcc/varasm.c
+++ b/gcc/varasm.c
@@ -2088,12 +2088,12 @@ contains_pointers_p (tree type)
    it all the way to final.  See PR 17982 for further discussion.  */
 static GTY(()) tree pending_assemble_externals;
 
+#ifdef ASM_OUTPUT_EXTERNAL
 /* Some targets delay some output to final using TARGET_ASM_FILE_END.
    As a result, assemble_external can be called after the list of externals
    is processed and the pointer set destroyed.  */
 static bool pending_assemble_externals_processed;
 
-#ifdef ASM_OUTPUT_EXTERNAL
 /* Avoid O(external_decls**2) lookups in the pending_assemble_externals
    TREE_LIST in assemble_external.  */
 static struct pointer_set_t *pending_assemble_externals_set;