Re: swsusp.S: meaningfull assembly labels

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:37:45AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> NO! You just made those labels public! The LOCAL symbols need to
> begin with ".L".  Now, if you have a 'copy_loop' in another module,
> linked with this, anywhere in the kernel, they will share the
> same address -- not what you expected, I'm sure! The assembler
> has some strange rules you need to understand. Use `nm` and you
> will find that your new labels are in the object file!

Er, no.  They'll show up in the object file.  That doesn't mean they're
global; static symbols also show up in the object file.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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