diff --git a/src/libsyntax/ext/format.rs b/src/libsyntax/ext/format.rs
index a9e5318db40..11d9713af98 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/ext/format.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/ext/format.rs
@@ -319,6 +319,17 @@ impl Context {
         }
     }
 
+    /// These attributes are applied to all statics that this syntax extension
+    /// will generate.
+    fn static_attrs(&self) -> ~[ast::Attribute] {
+        // Flag statics as `address_insignificant` so LLVM can merge duplicate
+        // globals as much as possible (which we're generating a whole lot of).
+        let unnamed = self.ecx.meta_word(self.fmtsp, @"address_insignificant");
+        let unnamed = self.ecx.attribute(self.fmtsp, unnamed);
+
+        return ~[unnamed];
+    }
+
     /// Translate a `parse::Piece` to a static `rt::Piece`
     fn trans_piece(&mut self, piece: &parse::Piece) -> @ast::Expr {
         let sp = self.fmtsp;
@@ -444,14 +455,9 @@ impl Context {
                 ~[]
             ), None);
             let st = ast::item_static(ty, ast::MutImmutable, method);
-            let static_name = self.ecx.ident_of(format!("__static_method_{}",
+            let static_name = self.ecx.ident_of(format!("__STATIC_METHOD_{}",
                                                      self.method_statics.len()));
-            // Flag these statics as `address_insignificant` so LLVM can
-            // merge duplicate globals as much as possible (which we're
-            // generating a whole lot of).
-            let unnamed = self.ecx.meta_word(self.fmtsp, @"address_insignificant");
-            let unnamed = self.ecx.attribute(self.fmtsp, unnamed);
-            let item = self.ecx.item(sp, static_name, ~[unnamed], st);
+            let item = self.ecx.item(sp, static_name, self.static_attrs(), st);
             self.method_statics.push(item);
             self.ecx.expr_ident(sp, static_name)
         };
@@ -572,11 +578,9 @@ impl Context {
         );
         let ty = self.ecx.ty(self.fmtsp, ty);
         let st = ast::item_static(ty, ast::MutImmutable, fmt);
-        let static_name = self.ecx.ident_of("__static_fmtstr");
-        // see above comment for `address_insignificant` and why we do it
-        let unnamed = self.ecx.meta_word(self.fmtsp, @"address_insignificant");
-        let unnamed = self.ecx.attribute(self.fmtsp, unnamed);
-        let item = self.ecx.item(self.fmtsp, static_name, ~[unnamed], st);
+        let static_name = self.ecx.ident_of("__STATIC_FMTSTR");
+        let item = self.ecx.item(self.fmtsp, static_name,
+                                 self.static_attrs(), st);
         let decl = respan(self.fmtsp, ast::DeclItem(item));
         lets.push(@respan(self.fmtsp, ast::StmtDecl(@decl, ast::DUMMY_NODE_ID)));
 
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/format-no-uppercase-statics.rs b/src/test/run-pass/format-no-uppercase-statics.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..585a61544ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/format-no-uppercase-statics.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+#[deny(non_uppercase_statics)];
+
+pub fn main() {
+    println!("I generate statics with {0, select, other{#}}", "weird names");
+}