On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 08:02:23AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > ... as they don't work as intended with -fPIC. > > I did prefer them over *_end ones at the time because older gcc would > cause .L* symbols to be public, due to issuing .globl for all > referenced externals. And labels at the end of instructions collide > with the ones at the start of the next instruction, making disassembly > harder to grok. Luckily recent gcc no longer issues those .globl > directives, and hence .L* labels, staying local by default, no longer > get in the way. > > Reported-by: Wei Liu <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> >
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