[PATCH] S/390: Define LOCAL_LABEL_PREFIX

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>>
>>> Andreas Kranz <andikr@gmx.net> writes:
>>>
>>>>> My point is that this is not a s390 thing, but an ELF thing.  It should
>>>>> be a generic ELF setting, consistent with BFD.
>>>>
>>>> Ok. How about bfd/elf-bfd.h?
>>>
>>> I don't think that's the right place to define it, it should rather be
>>> in gas/obj-elf.h.
>>
>> Note that that has a different effect with regard to the linker's
>> --discard-locals option.
>
> Can you expand?  How does this affect the linker?

I'm sorry, you're right, it doesn't.  I was thinking of something
else.

In the ELF linker, a local label is determined by
_bfd_elf_is_local_label_name in bfd/elf.c.  That checks for a ".L"
prefix.  gas should be consistent.

Ian