On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 12:55 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote: > Local symbols prefixed with '.L' do not emit symbol table entries, as > they have special meaning for the assembler. > > '.L' prefixed symbols can be used within a code region, but should be > avoided for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations. > > Add a new check to emit a warning on finding the usage of '.L' symbols > in '.S' files, if it lies within SYM_*_START/END annotation pair.
I believe this needs a test for $file as it won't work well on patches as the SYM_*_START/END may not be in the patch context. Also, is this supposed to work for local labels like '.L<foo>:'? I don't think a warning should be generated for those.
