Emphasize the need to continue decompressing gzip members.

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Mark Adler 2018-01-08 18:16:05 -08:00
parent ba9df2111e
commit bf88202e31

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zlib.h
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@ -866,9 +866,11 @@ ZEXTERN int ZEXPORT inflateInit2 OF((z_streamp strm,
detection, or add 16 to decode only the gzip format (the zlib format will
return a Z_DATA_ERROR). If a gzip stream is being decoded, strm->adler is a
CRC-32 instead of an Adler-32. Unlike the gunzip utility and gzread() (see
below), inflate() will not automatically decode concatenated gzip streams.
inflate() will return Z_STREAM_END at the end of the gzip stream. The state
would need to be reset to continue decoding a subsequent gzip stream.
below), inflate() will *not* automatically decode concatenated gzip members.
inflate() will return Z_STREAM_END at the end of the gzip member. The state
would need to be reset to continue decoding a subsequent gzip member. This
*must* be done if there is more data after a gzip member, in order for the
decompression to be compliant with the gzip standard (RFC 1952).
inflateInit2 returns Z_OK if success, Z_MEM_ERROR if there was not enough
memory, Z_VERSION_ERROR if the zlib library version is incompatible with the