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Include Local Labels: `-L'
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   Labels beginning with `L' (upper case only) are called "local
labels". Note: Symbol Names.  Normally you do not see such labels when
debugging, because they are intended for the use of programs (like
compilers) that compose assembler programs, not for your notice.
Normally both `as' and `ld' discard such labels, so you do not normally
debug with them.

   This option tells `as' to retain those `L...' symbols in the object
file.  Usually if you do this you also tell the linker `ld' to preserve
symbols whose names begin with `L'.

   By default, a local label is any label beginning with `L', but each
target is allowed to redefine the local label prefix.  On the HPPA
local labels begin with `L$'.