[Zlib-devel] iostream

Mark Adler mark.adler at quest.jpl.nasa.gov
Tue May 28 11:44:01 EDT 2002


On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 07:44  AM, rjones at WellsFargo.COM wrote:

> I was wondering why zlib wasn't originally written with iostreams? Any 
> advantage of using unsigned char * vs. iostream? Or is it simply 
> because zlib was written in C and not C++??

That would be it.  zlib was written to be a highly portable C library.

mark





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