OT: Stream structures in bzlib and zlib

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Feb 21 16:43:51 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:53:15AM +0100, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:
> Before I go and test whether bzlib modifies the input buffer for temporaries 
> (by simply passing it data in a RO segment and checking whether I get a 
> SIGSEGV), is there anyone out there who's hit the same "problem" before and 
> might shed some more insight whether I'll have to copy the data before 
> setting it up in a stream structure as input?

The buffers are not modified for the compression path.

Joerg


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