Re: [MiNT] MiNTlib assembly labels naming?

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> writes:

> When looking at symbols which occur several times in MiNTlib,
> "exit" is found from 3 different places:

There is nothing wrong with local symbols appearing in multiple object,
they are local after all.  You get them from any file local
(i.e. static) symbol defined in C.

> Isn't "." what was used with Devpac for getting a local symbol
> i.e. shouldn't '.' be replace with 'L' in those?

You can name local labels any way you like as long they are unique to
the translation unit.

> In C, yes, but in Gdb it shows up as "__exit"

__exit is the assembler name of _exit.

Andreas.

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