GENSYM is Harder than You Think

How does one implements GENSYM^[1] in a robust and thread safe way? What if several programs have to interchanged generated SEXPs, so that symbols wont clash? Say two different compilers gensyming assembly output may produce clashing identifiers.

[1] http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/fun_gensym.html

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Windows uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier but I fail to get how they are robust and synced.
They are not, haha. It's black magic, Worse is Better, lousy engineering, whatever you want to call it.