On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Alan Modra wrote: > .ifndef __GAS_VERSION__ Before you carve that in stone, would it make sense to add a dot in there to avoid any plausible clash with C macro/symbols? Like __GAS.VERSION__ or something. N.B. tc-cris.c:md_begin (BTW yes, I guess local symbols are better). brgds, H-P