as: Local

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1 7.57 '.local NAMES'
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1 This directive, which is available for ELF targets, marks each symbol in
1 the comma-separated list of 'names' as a local symbol so that it will
1 not be externally visible.  If the symbols do not already exist, they
1 will be created.
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1    For targets where the '.lcomm' directive (⇒Lcomm) does not
1 accept an alignment argument, which is the case for most ELF targets,
11 the '.local' directive can be used in combination with '.comm' (⇒
 Comm) to define aligned local common data.
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