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

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 00:33:17 GMT 2022


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.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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