diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index acdf79309..b544c4a46 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-04-26  Wolfgang Lux  <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com>
+
+	* Source/NSObject.m (GSAtomicIncrement, GSAtomicDecrement): Use
+	local labels in PowerPC assembler code to avoid a compile error
+	when this code is inlined more than once. In addition, use the
+	optimized assembler definitions also on PowerPC machines running
+	Darwin/Mac OS X.
+
 2010-04-23  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
 	* Source/Additions/NSFileHandle+GNUstepBase.m: fix to only build on OSX
diff --git a/Source/NSObject.m b/Source/NSObject.m
index cd2c3f8a6..31ba3815b 100644
--- a/Source/NSObject.m
+++ b/Source/NSObject.m
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ GSAtomicDecrement(gsatomic_t X)
  return *X;
 }
 
-#elif defined(__PPC__)
+#elif defined(__PPC__) || defined(__POWERPC__)
 
 typedef int32_t volatile *gsatomic_t;
 
@@ -255,11 +255,11 @@ GSAtomicIncrement(gsatomic_t X)
 {
   int tmp;
   __asm__ __volatile__ (
-    "incmodified:"
+    "0:"
     "lwarx %0,0,%1 \n"
     "addic %0,%0,1 \n"
     "stwcx. %0,0,%1 \n"
-    "bne- incmodified \n"
+    "bne- 0b \n"
     :"=&r" (tmp)
     :"r" (X)
     :"cc", "memory");
@@ -271,11 +271,11 @@ GSAtomicDecrement(gsatomic_t X)
 {
   int tmp;
   __asm__ __volatile__ (
-    "decmodified:"
+    "0:"
     "lwarx %0,0,%1 \n"
     "addic %0,%0,-1 \n"
     "stwcx. %0,0,%1 \n"
-    "bne- decmodified \n"
+    "bne- 0b \n"
     :"=&r" (tmp)
     :"r" (X)
     :"cc", "memory");