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+// target.cc
+
+// Copyright 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+// Written by Doug Kwan <dougkwan@google.com>.
+
+// This file is part of gold.
+
+// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+// Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston,
+// MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+#include "gold.h"
+#include "target.h"
+
+namespace gold
+{
+
+// Return whether NAME is a local label name. This is used to implement the
+// --discard-locals options and can be overriden by children classes to
+// implement system-specific behaviour. The logic here is the same as that
+// in _bfd_elf_is_local_label_name().
+
+bool
+Target::do_is_local_label_name (const char* name) const
+{
+ // Normal local symbols start with ``.L''.
+ if (name[0] == '.' && name[1] == 'L')
+ return true;
+
+ // At least some SVR4 compilers (e.g., UnixWare 2.1 cc) generate
+ // DWARF debugging symbols starting with ``..''.
+ if (name[0] == '.' && name[1] == '.')
+ return true;
+
+ // gcc will sometimes generate symbols beginning with ``_.L_'' when
+ // emitting DWARF debugging output. I suspect this is actually a
+ // small bug in gcc (it calls ASM_OUTPUT_LABEL when it should call
+ // ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL, and this causes the leading
+ // underscore to be emitted on some ELF targets). For ease of use,
+ // we treat such symbols as local.
+ if (name[0] == '_' && name[1] == '.' && name[2] == 'L' && name[3] == '_')
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+} // End namespace gold.