[llvm-dev] clang assembler keeps .Linfo_string symbols?

[Michael Johnson via llvm-dev]

Hi Rafael,

This probably doesn't help, but I wouldn't expect symbols starting with 
.L to appear in an object file (unless -L is supplied to the assembler).

Regards
Michael
> Michael Johnson <mpj at rowley.co.uk> writes:
>
>> That was probably my fault - not sure of the niceties of the list. Also
>> not sure I understand why the integrated assembler behaves differently.
>> I guess gold is never used with object files produced this way?
> Good question. It is possible gas has a more targeted way of avoiding
> the gold bug, or they might not care about it.
>
> I would not be opposed to trying to remove the workaround to see how
> common the issue is these days.
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael