Re: [PATCH v3] binutils, gdb: support zstd compressed debug sections

Alan Modra via Gdb-patches
2022-09-27T00:35:26Z

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 10:08:30AM -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
> Silly question but... AM_ZSTD was clearly named after AM_ZLIB. But why
> does AM_ZLIB have the "AM" (automake, I suppose) prefix? It doesn't
> seem to have anything to do with automake.

You'll have to ask Joel. The original patch is at
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2009-October/063904.html

As far as I can see, we get to choose user-defined autoconf macro
naming conventions ourselves.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM