Dollar local labels

[Hannes Beinert]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:57, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:37:46AM -0500, Hannes Beinert wrote:
>> When I attempt to use dollar local labels in gas, it consistently
>> issues errors.  Based on what I think is the manual for this version,
>> I believe that dollar locals ought to be supported.  As an example,
>
> Dollar locals are not enabled for all targets.  x86 is one such
> target.  $ is an immediate prefix for x86 assembly.

Ugh.  I didn't realize that these two usages conflict with one
another.  I knew there had to be more to this story.  :-)

Thank you for your quick reply, Alan -- I'm really grateful!

Hannes.