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diff --git a/zlib-1.1.4/ChangeLog b/zlib-1.1.4/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf2e3f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/zlib-1.1.4/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,481 @@ + + ChangeLog file for zlib + +Changes in 1.1.4 (11 March 2002) +- ZFREE was repeated on same allocation on some error conditions. + This creates a security problem described in + http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt +- Returned incorrect error (Z_MEM_ERROR) on some invalid data +- Avoid accesses before window for invalid distances with inflate window + less than 32K. +- force windowBits > 8 to avoid a bug in the encoder for a window size + of 256 bytes. (A complete fix will be available in 1.1.5). + +Changes in 1.1.3 (9 July 1998) +- fix "an inflate input buffer bug that shows up on rare but persistent + occasions" (Mark) +- fix gzread and gztell for concatenated .gz files (Didier Le Botlan) +- fix gzseek(..., SEEK_SET) in write mode +- fix crc check after a gzeek (Frank Faubert) +- fix miniunzip when the last entry in a zip file is itself a zip file + (J Lillge) +- add contrib/asm586 and contrib/asm686 (Brian Raiter) + See http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/assembly.html +- add support for Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi (Bob Dellaca) +- add support for C++Builder 3 and Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi2 (Davide Moretti) +- do not exit prematurely in untgz if 0 at start of block (Magnus Holmgren) +- use macro EXTERN instead of extern to support DLL for BeOS (Sander Stoks) +- added a FAQ file + +- Support gzdopen on Mac with Metrowerks (Jason Linhart) +- Do not redefine Byte on Mac (Brad Pettit & Jason Linhart) +- define SEEK_END too if SEEK_SET is not defined (Albert Chin-A-Young) +- avoid some warnings with Borland C (Tom Tanner) +- fix a problem in contrib/minizip/zip.c for 16-bit MSDOS (Gilles Vollant) +- emulate utime() for WIN32 in contrib/untgz (Gilles Vollant) +- allow several arguments to configure (Tim Mooney, Frodo Looijaard) +- use libdir and includedir in Makefile.in (Tim Mooney) +- support shared libraries on OSF1 V4 (Tim Mooney) +- remove so_locations in "make clean" (Tim Mooney) +- fix maketree.c compilation error (Glenn, Mark) +- Python interface to zlib now in Python 1.5 (Jeremy Hylton) +- new Makefile.riscos (Rich Walker) +- initialize static descriptors in trees.c for embedded targets (Nick Smith) +- use "foo-gz" in example.c for RISCOS and VMS (Nick Smith) +- add the OS/2 files in Makefile.in too (Andrew Zabolotny) +- fix fdopen and halloc macros for Microsoft C 6.0 (Tom Lane) +- fix maketree.c to allow clean compilation of inffixed.h (Mark) +- fix parameter check in deflateCopy (Gunther Nikl) +- cleanup trees.c, use compressed_len only in debug mode (Christian Spieler) +- Many portability patches by Christian Spieler: + . zutil.c, zutil.h: added "const" for zmem* + . Make_vms.com: fixed some typos + . Make_vms.com: msdos/Makefile.*: removed zutil.h from some dependency lists + . msdos/Makefile.msc: remove "default rtl link library" info from obj files + . msdos/Makefile.*: use model-dependent name for the built zlib library + . msdos/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.gcc: + new makefiles, for emx (DOS/OS2), emx&rsxnt and mingw32 (Windows 9x / NT) +- use define instead of typedef for Bytef also for MSC small/medium (Tom Lane) +- replace __far with _far for better portability (Christian Spieler, Tom Lane) +- fix test for errno.h in configure (Tim Newsham) + +Changes in 1.1.2 (19 March 98) +- added contrib/minzip, mini zip and unzip based on zlib (Gilles Vollant) + See http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html +- preinitialize the inflate tables for fixed codes, to make the code + completely thread safe (Mark) +- some simplifications and slight speed-up to the inflate code (Mark) +- fix gzeof on non-compressed files (Allan Schrum) +- add -std1 option in configure for OSF1 to fix gzprintf (Martin Mokrejs) +- use default value of 4K for Z_BUFSIZE for 16-bit MSDOS (Tim Wegner + Glenn) +- added os2/Makefile.def and os2/zlib.def (Andrew Zabolotny) +- add shared lib support for UNIX_SV4.2MP (MATSUURA Takanori) +- do not wrap extern "C" around system includes (Tom Lane) +- mention zlib binding for TCL in README (Andreas Kupries) +- added amiga/Makefile.pup for Amiga powerUP SAS/C PPC (Andreas Kleinert) +- allow "make install prefix=..." even after configure (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) +- allow "configure --prefix $HOME" (Tim Mooney) +- remove warnings in example.c and gzio.c (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) +- move Makefile.sas to amiga/Makefile.sas + +Changes in 1.1.1 (27 Feb 98) +- fix macros _tr_tally_* in deflate.h for debug mode (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) +- remove block truncation heuristic which had very marginal effect for zlib + (smaller lit_bufsize than in gzip 1.2.4) and degraded a little the + compression ratio on some files. This also allows inlining _tr_tally for + matches in deflate_slow. +- added msdos/Makefile.w32 for WIN32 Microsoft Visual C++ (Bob Frazier) + +Changes in 1.1.0 (24 Feb 98) +- do not return STREAM_END prematurely in inflate (John Bowler) +- revert to the zlib 1.0.8 inflate to avoid the gcc 2.8.0 bug (Jeremy Buhler) +- compile with -DFASTEST to get compression code optimized for speed only +- in minigzip, try mmap'ing the input file first (Miguel Albrecht) +- increase size of I/O buffers in minigzip.c and gzio.c (not a big gain + on Sun but significant on HP) + +- add a pointer to experimental unzip library in README (Gilles Vollant) +- initialize variable gcc in configure (Chris Herborth) + +Changes in 1.0.9 (17 Feb 1998) +- added gzputs and gzgets functions +- do not clear eof flag in gzseek (Mark Diekhans) +- fix gzseek for files in transparent mode (Mark Diekhans) +- do not assume that vsprintf returns the number of bytes written (Jens Krinke) +- replace EXPORT with ZEXPORT to avoid conflict with other programs +- added compress2 in zconf.h, zlib.def, zlib.dnt +- new asm code from Gilles Vollant in contrib/asm386 +- simplify the inflate code (Mark): + . Replace ZALLOC's in huft_build() with single ZALLOC in inflate_blocks_new() + . ZALLOC the length list in inflate_trees_fixed() instead of using stack + . ZALLOC the value area for huft_build() instead of using stack + . Simplify Z_FINISH check in inflate() + +- Avoid gcc 2.8.0 comparison bug a little differently than zlib 1.0.8 +- in inftrees.c, avoid cc -O bug on HP (Farshid Elahi) +- in zconf.h move the ZLIB_DLL stuff earlier to avoid problems with + the declaration of FAR (Gilles VOllant) +- install libz.so* with mode 755 (executable) instead of 644 (Marc Lehmann) +- read_buf buf parameter of type Bytef* instead of charf* +- zmemcpy parameters are of type Bytef*, not charf* (Joseph Strout) +- do not redeclare unlink in minigzip.c for WIN32 (John Bowler) +- fix check for presence of directories in "make install" (Ian Willis) + +Changes in 1.0.8 (27 Jan 1998) +- fixed offsets in contrib/asm386/gvmat32.asm (Gilles Vollant) +- fix gzgetc and gzputc for big endian systems (Markus Oberhumer) +- added compress2() to allow setting the compression level +- include sys/types.h to get off_t on some systems (Marc Lehmann & QingLong) +- use constant arrays for the static trees in trees.c instead of computing + them at run time (thanks to Ken Raeburn for this suggestion). To create + trees.h, compile with GEN_TREES_H and run "make test". +- check return code of example in "make test" and display result +- pass minigzip command line options to file_compress +- simplifying code of inflateSync to avoid gcc 2.8 bug + +- support CC="gcc -Wall" in configure -s (QingLong) +- avoid a flush caused by ftell in gzopen for write mode (Ken Raeburn) +- fix test for shared library support to avoid compiler warnings +- zlib.lib -> zlib.dll in msdos/zlib.rc (Gilles Vollant) +- check for TARGET_OS_MAC in addition to MACOS (Brad Pettit) +- do not use fdopen for Metrowerks on Mac (Brad Pettit)) +- add checks for gzputc and gzputc in example.c +- avoid warnings in gzio.c and deflate.c (Andreas Kleinert) +- use const for the CRC table (Ken Raeburn) +- fixed "make uninstall" for shared libraries +- use Tracev instead of Trace in infblock.c +- in example.c use correct compressed length for test_sync +- suppress +vnocompatwarnings in configure for HPUX (not always supported) + +Changes in 1.0.7 (20 Jan 1998) +- fix gzseek which was broken in write mode +- return error for gzseek to negative absolute position +- fix configure for Linux (Chun-Chung Chen) +- increase stack space for MSC (Tim Wegner) +- get_crc_table and inflateSyncPoint are EXPORTed (Gilles Vollant) +- define EXPORTVA for gzprintf (Gilles Vollant) +- added man page zlib.3 (Rick Rodgers) +- for contrib/untgz, fix makedir() and improve Makefile + +- check gzseek in write mode in example.c +- allocate extra buffer for seeks only if gzseek is actually called +- avoid signed/unsigned comparisons (Tim Wegner, Gilles Vollant) +- add inflateSyncPoint in zconf.h +- fix list of exported functions in nt/zlib.dnt and mdsos/zlib.def + +Changes in 1.0.6 (19 Jan 1998) +- add functions gzprintf, gzputc, gzgetc, gztell, gzeof, gzseek, gzrewind and + gzsetparams (thanks to Roland Giersig and Kevin Ruland for some of this code) +- Fix a deflate bug occuring only with compression level 0 (thanks to + Andy Buckler for finding this one). +- In minigzip, pass transparently also the first byte for .Z files. +- return Z_BUF_ERROR instead of Z_OK if output buffer full in uncompress() +- check Z_FINISH in inflate (thanks to Marc Schluper) +- Implement deflateCopy (thanks to Adam Costello) +- make static libraries by default in configure, add --shared option. +- move MSDOS or Windows specific files to directory msdos +- suppress the notion of partial flush to simplify the interface + (but the symbol Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is kept for compatibility with 1.0.4) +- suppress history buffer provided by application to simplify the interface + (this feature was not implemented anyway in 1.0.4) +- next_in and avail_in must be initialized before calling inflateInit or + inflateInit2 +- add EXPORT in all exported functions (for Windows DLL) +- added Makefile.nt (thanks to Stephen Williams) +- added the unsupported "contrib" directory: + contrib/asm386/ by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com> + 386 asm code replacing longest_match(). + contrib/iostream/ by Kevin Ruland <kevin@rodin.wustl.edu> + A C++ I/O streams interface to the zlib gz* functions + contrib/iostream2/ by Tyge Løvset <Tyge.Lovset@cmr.no> + Another C++ I/O streams interface + contrib/untgz/ by "Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez" <paag@tid.es> + A very simple tar.gz file extractor using zlib + contrib/visual-basic.txt by Carlos Rios <c_rios@sonda.cl> + How to use compress(), uncompress() and the gz* functions from VB. +- pass params -f (filtered data), -h (huffman only), -1 to -9 (compression + level) in minigzip (thanks to Tom Lane) + +- use const for rommable constants in deflate +- added test for gzseek and gztell in example.c +- add undocumented function inflateSyncPoint() (hack for Paul Mackerras) +- add undocumented function zError to convert error code to string + (for Tim Smithers) +- Allow compilation of gzio with -DNO_DEFLATE to avoid the compression code. +- Use default memcpy for Symantec MSDOS compiler. +- Add EXPORT keyword for check_func (needed for Windows DLL) +- add current directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for "make test" +- create also a link for libz.so.1 +- added support for FUJITSU UXP/DS (thanks to Toshiaki Nomura) +- use $(SHAREDLIB) instead of libz.so in Makefile.in (for HPUX) +- added -soname for Linux in configure (Chun-Chung Chen, +- assign numbers to the exported functions in zlib.def (for Windows DLL) +- add advice in zlib.h for best usage of deflateSetDictionary +- work around compiler bug on Atari (cast Z_NULL in call of s->checkfn) +- allow compilation with ANSI keywords only enabled for TurboC in large model +- avoid "versionString"[0] (Borland bug) +- add NEED_DUMMY_RETURN for Borland +- use variable z_verbose for tracing in debug mode (L. Peter Deutsch). +- allow compilation with CC +- defined STDC for OS/2 (David Charlap) +- limit external names to 8 chars for MVS (Thomas Lund) +- in minigzip.c, use static buffers only for 16-bit systems +- fix suffix check for "minigzip -d foo.gz" +- do not return an error for the 2nd of two consecutive gzflush() (Felix Lee) +- use _fdopen instead of fdopen for MSC >= 6.0 (Thomas Fanslau) +- added makelcc.bat for lcc-win32 (Tom St Denis) +- in Makefile.dj2, use copy and del instead of install and rm (Frank Donahoe) +- Avoid expanded $Id$. Use "rcs -kb" or "cvs admin -kb" to avoid Id expansion. +- check for unistd.h in configure (for off_t) +- remove useless check parameter in inflate_blocks_free +- avoid useless assignment of s->check to itself in inflate_blocks_new +- do not flush twice in gzclose (thanks to Ken Raeburn) +- rename FOPEN as F_OPEN to avoid clash with /usr/include/sys/file.h +- use NO_ERRNO_H instead of enumeration of operating systems with errno.h +- work around buggy fclose on pipes for HP/UX +- support zlib DLL with BORLAND C++ 5.0 (thanks to Glenn Randers-Pehrson) +- fix configure if CC is already equal to gcc + +Changes in 1.0.5 (3 Jan 98) +- Fix inflate to terminate gracefully when fed corrupted or invalid data +- Use const for rommable constants in inflate +- Eliminate memory leaks on error conditions in inflate +- Removed some vestigial code in inflate +- Update web address in README + +Changes in 1.0.4 (24 Jul 96) +- In very rare conditions, deflate(s, Z_FINISH) could fail to produce an EOF + bit, so the decompressor could decompress all the correct data but went + on to attempt decompressing extra garbage data. This affected minigzip too. +- zlibVersion and gzerror return const char* (needed for DLL) +- port to RISCOS (no fdopen, no multiple dots, no unlink, no fileno) +- use z_error only for DEBUG (avoid problem with DLLs) + +Changes in 1.0.3 (2 Jul 96) +- use z_streamp instead of z_stream *, which is now a far pointer in MSDOS + small and medium models; this makes the library incompatible with previous + versions for these models. (No effect in large model or on other systems.) +- return OK instead of BUF_ERROR if previous deflate call returned with + avail_out as zero but there is nothing to do +- added memcmp for non STDC compilers +- define NO_DUMMY_DECL for more Mac compilers (.h files merged incorrectly) +- define __32BIT__ if __386__ or i386 is defined (pb. with Watcom and SCO) +- better check for 16-bit mode MSC (avoids problem with Symantec) + +Changes in 1.0.2 (23 May 96) +- added Windows DLL support +- added a function zlibVersion (for the DLL support) +- fixed declarations using Bytef in infutil.c (pb with MSDOS medium model) +- Bytef is define's instead of typedef'd only for Borland C +- avoid reading uninitialized memory in example.c +- mention in README that the zlib format is now RFC1950 +- updated Makefile.dj2 +- added algorithm.doc + +Changes in 1.0.1 (20 May 96) [1.0 skipped to avoid confusion] +- fix array overlay in deflate.c which sometimes caused bad compressed data +- fix inflate bug with empty stored block +- fix MSDOS medium model which was broken in 0.99 +- fix deflateParams() which could generated bad compressed data. +- Bytef is define'd instead of typedef'ed (work around Borland bug) +- added an INDEX file +- new makefiles for DJGPP (Makefile.dj2), 32-bit Borland (Makefile.b32), + Watcom (Makefile.wat), Amiga SAS/C (Makefile.sas) +- speed up adler32 for modern machines without auto-increment +- added -ansi for IRIX in configure +- static_init_done in trees.c is an int +- define unlink as delete for VMS +- fix configure for QNX +- add configure branch for SCO and HPUX +- avoid many warnings (unused variables, dead assignments, etc...) +- no fdopen for BeOS +- fix the Watcom fix for 32 bit mode (define FAR as empty) +- removed redefinition of Byte for MKWERKS +- work around an MWKERKS bug (incorrect merge of all .h files) + +Changes in 0.99 (27 Jan 96) +- allow preset dictionary shared between compressor and decompressor +- allow compression level 0 (no compression) +- add deflateParams in zlib.h: allow dynamic change of compression level + and compression strategy. +- test large buffers and deflateParams in example.c +- add optional "configure" to build zlib as a shared library +- suppress Makefile.qnx, use configure instead +- fixed deflate for 64-bit systems (detected on Cray) +- fixed inflate_blocks for 64-bit systems (detected on Alpha) +- declare Z_DEFLATED in zlib.h (possible parameter for deflateInit2) +- always return Z_BUF_ERROR when deflate() has nothing to do +- deflateInit and inflateInit are now macros to allow version checking +- prefix all global functions and types with z_ with -DZ_PREFIX +- make falloc completely reentrant (inftrees.c) +- fixed very unlikely race condition in ct_static_init +- free in reverse order of allocation to help memory manager +- use zlib-1.0/* instead of zlib/* inside the tar.gz +- make zlib warning-free with "gcc -O3 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith + -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes" +- allow gzread on concatenated .gz files +- deflateEnd now returns Z_DATA_ERROR if it was premature +- deflate is finally (?) fully deterministic (no matches beyond end of input) +- Document Z_SYNC_FLUSH +- add uninstall in Makefile +- Check for __cpluplus in zlib.h +- Better test in ct_align for partial flush +- avoid harmless warnings for Borland C++ +- initialize hash_head in deflate.c +- avoid warning on fdopen (gzio.c) for HP cc -Aa +- include stdlib.h for STDC compilers +- include errno.h for Cray +- ignore error if ranlib doesn't exist +- call ranlib twice for NeXTSTEP +- use exec_prefix instead of prefix for libz.a +- renamed ct_* as _tr_* to avoid conflict with applications +- clear z->msg in inflateInit2 before any error return +- initialize opaque in example.c, gzio.c, deflate.c and inflate.c +- fixed typo in zconf.h (_GNUC__ => __GNUC__) +- check for WIN32 in zconf.h and zutil.c (avoid farmalloc in 32-bit mode) +- fix typo in Make_vms.com (f$trnlnm -> f$getsyi) +- in fcalloc, normalize pointer if size > 65520 bytes +- don't use special fcalloc for 32 bit Borland C++ +- use STDC instead of __GO32__ to avoid redeclaring exit, calloc, etc... +- use Z_BINARY instead of BINARY +- document that gzclose after gzdopen will close the file +- allow "a" as mode in gzopen. +- fix error checking in gzread +- allow skipping .gz extra-field on pipes +- added reference to Perl interface in README +- put the crc table in FAR data (I dislike more and more the medium model :) +- added get_crc_table +- added a dimension to all arrays (Borland C can't count). +- workaround Borland C bug in declaration of inflate_codes_new & inflate_fast +- guard against multiple inclusion of *.h (for precompiled header on Mac) +- Watcom C pretends to be Microsoft C small model even in 32 bit mode. +- don't use unsized arrays to avoid silly warnings by Visual C++: + warning C4746: 'inflate_mask' : unsized array treated as '__far' + (what's wrong with far data in far model?). +- define enum out of inflate_blocks_state to allow compilation with C++ + +Changes in 0.95 (16 Aug 95) +- fix MSDOS small and medium model (now easier to adapt to any compiler) +- inlined send_bits +- fix the final (:-) bug for deflate with flush (output was correct but + not completely flushed in rare occasions). +- default window size is same for compression and decompression + (it's now sufficient to set MAX_WBITS in zconf.h). +- voidp -> voidpf and voidnp -> voidp (for consistency with other + typedefs and because voidnp was not near in large model). + +Changes in 0.94 (13 Aug 95) +- support MSDOS medium model +- fix deflate with flush (could sometimes generate bad output) +- fix deflateReset (zlib header was incorrectly suppressed) +- added support for VMS +- allow a compression level in gzopen() +- gzflush now calls fflush +- For deflate with flush, flush even if no more input is provided. +- rename libgz.a as libz.a +- avoid complex expression in infcodes.c triggering Turbo C bug +- work around a problem with gcc on Alpha (in INSERT_STRING) +- don't use inline functions (problem with some gcc versions) +- allow renaming of Byte, uInt, etc... with #define. +- avoid warning about (unused) pointer before start of array in deflate.c +- avoid various warnings in gzio.c, example.c, infblock.c, adler32.c, zutil.c +- avoid reserved word 'new' in trees.c + +Changes in 0.93 (25 June 95) +- temporarily disable inline functions +- make deflate deterministic +- give enough lookahead for PARTIAL_FLUSH +- Set binary mode for stdin/stdout in minigzip.c for OS/2 +- don't even use signed char in inflate (not portable enough) +- fix inflate memory leak for segmented architectures + +Changes in 0.92 (3 May 95) +- don't assume that char is signed (problem on SGI) +- Clear bit buffer when starting a stored block +- no memcpy on Pyramid +- suppressed inftest.c +- optimized fill_window, put longest_match inline for gcc +- optimized inflate on stored blocks. +- untabify all sources to simplify patches + +Changes in 0.91 (2 May 95) +- Default MEM_LEVEL is 8 (not 9 for Unix) as documented in zlib.h +- Document the memory requirements in zconf.h +- added "make install" +- fix sync search logic in inflateSync +- deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH) now works even if output buffer too short +- after inflateSync, don't scare people with just "lo world" +- added support for DJGPP + +Changes in 0.9 (1 May 95) +- don't assume that zalloc clears the allocated memory (the TurboC bug + was Mark's bug after all :) +- let again gzread copy uncompressed data unchanged (was working in 0.71) +- deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH), inflateReset and inflateSync are now fully implemented +- added a test of inflateSync in example.c +- moved MAX_WBITS to zconf.h because users might want to change that. +- document explicitly that zalloc(64K) on MSDOS must return a normalized + pointer (zero offset) +- added Makefiles for Microsoft C, Turbo C, Borland C++ +- faster crc32() + +Changes in 0.8 (29 April 95) +- 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 TurboC compiler bug (bad code for b << 0, see infutil.h) + (actually that was not a compiler bug, see 0.81 above) +- gzread no longer reads one extra byte in certain cases +- In gzio destroy(), don't reference a freed structure +- avoid many warnings for MSDOS +- avoid the ERROR symbol which is used by MS Windows + +Changes in 0.71 (14 April 95) +- Fixed more MSDOS compilation problems :( There is still a bug with + TurboC large model. + +Changes in 0.7 (14 April 95) +- Added full inflate support. +- Simplified the crc32() interface. The pre- and post-conditioning + (one's complement) is now done inside crc32(). WARNING: this is + incompatible with previous versions; see zlib.h for the new usage. + +Changes in 0.61 (12 April 95) +- workaround for a bug in TurboC. example and minigzip now work on MSDOS. + +Changes in 0.6 (11 April 95) +- added minigzip.c +- added gzdopen to reopen a file descriptor as gzFile +- added transparent reading of non-gziped files in gzread. +- fixed bug in gzread (don't read crc as data) +- fixed bug in destroy (gzio.c) (don't return Z_STREAM_END for gzclose). +- don't allocate big arrays in the stack (for MSDOS) +- fix some MSDOS compilation problems + +Changes in 0.5: +- do real compression in deflate.c. Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is supported but + not yet Z_FULL_FLUSH. +- support decompression but only in a single step (forced Z_FINISH) +- added opaque object for zalloc and zfree. +- added deflateReset and inflateReset +- added a variable zlib_version for consistency checking. +- renamed the 'filter' parameter of deflateInit2 as 'strategy'. + Added Z_FILTERED and Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY constants. + +Changes in 0.4: +- avoid "zip" everywhere, use zlib instead of ziplib. +- suppress Z_BLOCK_FLUSH, interpret Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH as block flush + if compression method == 8. +- added adler32 and crc32 +- renamed deflateOptions as deflateInit2, call one or the other but not both +- added the method parameter for deflateInit2. +- added inflateInit2 +- simplied considerably deflateInit and inflateInit by not supporting + user-provided history buffer. This is supported only in deflateInit2 + and inflateInit2. + +Changes in 0.3: +- prefix all macro names with Z_ +- use Z_FINISH instead of deflateEnd to finish compression. +- added Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY +- added gzerror() |