This isn't the right type anyway to assure that it contains a
pointer. That type would be intptr_t or uintptr_t. However the C99
standard says that those types are optional, so their use would not
be portable. This commit simply uses size_t or whatever configure
decided to use for size_t. That would be the same length as
ptrdiff_t, and so will work just as well. The code checks to see if
the length of the type used is the same as the length of a void
pointer, so there is already protection against the use of the
wrong type. The use of size_t (or ptrdiff_t) will almost always
work, as all modern architectures have an array size that is the
same as the pointer size. Only old segmented architectures would
have to fall back to the slower CRC-32 calculation, where the
amount of memory that can be accessed is larger than the maximum
array size.
If zlib and/or gzip header processing was requested, but a header
was never provided and inflateSync was used successfully, then the
inflate state would be inconsistent, trying to compute a check
value but with no flags set. This commit sets the inflate mode to
raw in this case, since there is no other assumption that can be
made if a header was requested but never seen.
This is a problem in the odd case that the second argument of
LSEEK is a larger type than off_t. Apparently MinGW defines off_t
to be 32 bits, but _lseeki64 has a 64-bit second argument.
Also undo a previous commit to permit MinGW to use _lseeki64.
This limits hash table inserts to the available data in the window
and to the sliding window size in deflate_stored(). The hash table
inserts are deferred until deflateParams() switches to a non-zero
compression level.
This commit allows a parameter change even if the input data has
not all been compressed and copied to the application output
buffer, so long as all of the input data has been compressed to
the internal pending output buffer. This also allows an immediate
deflateParams change so long as there have been no deflate calls
since initialization or reset.
This permits deflateParams to change the strategy and level right
after deflateInit, without having to wait until a header has been
written. The parameters can be changed immediately up until the
first deflate call that consumes any input data.
This avoids unnecessary filling of bytes in the sliding window
buffer when switching from level zero to a non-zero level. This
also provides a consistent indication of deflate having taken
input for a later commit ...
There have been many reports of bugs in the assembler codes
intended to speed up deflate and inflate. They are third-party
contributions in contrib, and so are not supported by the zlib
maintainers.
Limit read() and write() requests to sizes that fit in an int.
This allows storing the return value in an int, and avoiding the
need to use or construct an ssize_t type. This is required for
Microsoft C, whose _read and _write functions take an unsigned
request and return an int.
Mark Adler