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7.61 .local names

This directive, which is available for ELF targets, marks each symbol in the comma-separated list of names as a local symbol so that it will not be externally visible. If the symbols do not already exist, they will be created.

For targets where the .lcomm directive (see .lcomm symbol , length) does not accept an alignment argument, which is the case for most ELF targets, the .local directive can be used in combination with .comm (see .comm symbol , length ) to define aligned local common data.