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1 9.15.2 x86 specific Directives
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1 '.lcomm SYMBOL , LENGTH[, ALIGNMENT]'
1      Reserve LENGTH (an absolute expression) bytes for a local common
1      denoted by SYMBOL.  The section and value of SYMBOL are those of
1      the new local common.  The addresses are allocated in the bss
1      section, so that at run-time the bytes start off zeroed.  Since
1      SYMBOL is not declared global, it is normally not visible to 'ld'.
1      The optional third parameter, ALIGNMENT, specifies the desired
1      alignment of the symbol in the bss section.
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1      This directive is only available for COFF based x86 targets.
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1 '.largecomm SYMBOL , LENGTH[, ALIGNMENT]'
1      This directive behaves in the same way as the 'comm' directive
1      except that the data is placed into the .LBSS section instead of
1      the .BSS section ⇒Comm.
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1      The directive is intended to be used for data which requires a
1      large amount of space, and it is only available for ELF based
1      x86_64 targets.
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