Change local labels to a '.' prefix

[ddevault]

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[enkore]

Assembler directives start with a dot, labels don't. Doing so would make it nearly impossible to extend the directives in the future.

[ddevault]

That's not true at all. The regex $[ \t].[A-Za-z0-9_]:[ \t]^ would only match on labels, not directives, and the regex $[ \t].^ would only match on directives, not labels. You just can't use directives like ".directive:". Excuse the funny formatting on this comment, I blame markdown.

[enkore]

True. Still I think that it would look a bit... confusing, you know.
Let's see, what the other people around here say :-)

That's not true at all. The regex $[ \t].[A-Za-z0-9_]:[ \t]^ would only match on labels, not directives, and the regex $[ \t].^ would only match on directives, not labels. You just can't use directives like ".directive:".