gas .L labels

[Amit Kale]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the prompt reply!
-Amit

On Wednesday 11 Jan 2006 4:27 pm, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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