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#### 9.15.2 x86 specific Directives

`.lcomm symbol , length[, alignment]`

  Reserve length (an absolute expression) bytes for a local common denoted by symbol. The section and value of symbol are those of the new local common. The addresses are allocated in the bss section, so that at run-time the bytes start off zeroed. Since symbol is not declared global, it is normally not visible to `ld`. The optional third parameter, alignment, specifies the desired alignment of the symbol in the bss section.

  This directive is only available for COFF based x86 targets.