Why does the "gcc2_compiled" symbol depend on -g?

[H . J . Lu]

I noticed that under Linux,

# gcc -c m.c -g
# nm m.o 
00000000 T __start
# gcc  -c m.c
# nm m.o
00000000 T __start
00000000 t gcc2_compiled.

Is that intentional?

Thanks.

H.J.