gas .L labels

[Dave Korn]

Amit Kale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found that labels begining with .L don't appear in the symbols exported
> from an assembly file (found via objdump -t). Other labels are exported
> even if they are not declared .globl
> 
> I didn't find any documentation for this feature. 

  See the section on "Include Local Labels" (2.6) in the gas manual.

> Is this how it was designed? 

  Yep.

> I would also like to know if there are other ways of making
> labels local. 

  See the section on "Symbol Names" (5.3) in the gas manual.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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