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From: Pål-Kristian Engstad <engstad AT funcom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Redefined labels in GAS
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 09:37:39 +0200
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F.G. wrote:
> 
> I've run into a small snag with a section of my program written for GAS.
>  In it, I use a macro which contains a label.  Later in the code I call
> the macro 8 times as part of an unrolled loop. Not surprisingly, it gives
> me an error telling me that the label has already been defined.  I
> believe that TASM has a directive called "local" which allows labels to
> be placed in macros and cause the lables to act as if they were
> in functions.  In other words, using the macro multiple times in the
> program will not yield "redefined label" errors.  Since GAS does not
> directly support macros AFAIK, there seems to be no such directive.  Is
> there any way to get around my problem?
> Thanks in advance.

Use numbered labels, "1:", "2:", etc. These are guaranteed to be local
within the asm statement.

PKE.
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