From 6b834a58bdef976383cff6e2a83f353e668a9cf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Adler Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 23:08:28 -0700 Subject: zlib 0.93 --- README | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index bc4a663..e82b56f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -zlib 0.92 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. +zlib 0.93 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. The data format used by the zlib library is described in the files zlib-3.1.doc, deflate-1.1.doc and gzip-4.1.doc, available @@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ To install the zlib library (libgz.a) in /usr/local/lib, type: make install To install in a different directory, use for example: make install prefix=$HOME This will install in $HOME/lib instead of /usr/local/lib. -The changes made in version 0.92 are documented in the file ChangeLog. +The changes made in version 0.93 are documented in the file ChangeLog. The main changes since 0.9 are: -- don't assume that char is signed (problem on SGI) +- temporarily disable inline functions +- make deflate deterministic +- don't use signed char in inflate (not portable enough) +- fix inflate memory leak for segmented architectures - Default MEM_LEVEL is 8 (not 9 for Unix) as documented in zlib.h - Document the memory requirements in zconf.h - added "make install" @@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ medium model with far allocation of big objects. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler - gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu madler@cco.caltech.edu + gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu madler@alumni.caltech.edu If you use the zlib library in a product, we would appreciate *not* receiving lengthy legal documents to sign. The sources are provided -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb