From 4ca984fb447ac57120c394cf2fbba23837ed31c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Adler Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 23:03:14 -0700 Subject: zlib 0.8 --- README | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 5705062..a8d5788 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -zlib 0.79 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. +zlib 0.8 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. +This is the first version with no known bugs. (There may still be +problem on SGI, to be checked.) The data format used by the zlib library is described in the file zlib-3.1.doc, deflate-1.1.doc and gzip-4.1.doc, available @@ -9,15 +11,18 @@ zlib.h. A usage example of the library is given in the file example.c which also tests that the library is working correctly. To compile all files and run the test program, just type: make test -The changes made in version 0.79 are documented in the file ChangeLog. +The changes made in version 0.8 are documented in the file ChangeLog. The main changes since 0.71 are: -- add fast inflate (inffast.c) -- In gzio destroy(), don't reference a freed structure - -On MSDOS, this version works in large and small model with MSC; in -small model only with TurboC (bug being investigated). For both -compilers, small model compression works only for small values of -MEM_LEVEL and WBITS (see zutil.h), and requires -DUSE_CALLOC. +- added fast inflate (inffast.c) +- deflate(Z_FINISH) now returns Z_STREAM_END when done. Warning: this + is incompatible with previous versions of zlib which returned Z_OK. +- work around a nasty TurboC compiler bug + +On MSDOS, this version works in both large and small model. However +small model compression works only for small values of MEM_LEVEL and +WBITS (see zutil.h). Small model decompression should work up to WBITS=15. +This version of zlib does not yet support small or medium model with +far allocation of big objects. Copyright (C) 1995 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb