[Zlib-devel] infnew-7 available for testing

[Mark Adler]

zlib betazoids,

Version 7 of the new inflate code is available for testing here:

     http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~madler/infnew-7.tar.gz

This new code can be applied to zlib 1.1.4 as follows (Unix example):

     gnutar xvfz zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
     cd zlib-1.1.4
     gnutar xvfz ../infnew-6.tar.gz
     patch zconf.h zconf.h-1.2.diff
     patch zlib.h zlib.h-1.2.diff
     rm infblock.* infcodes.* infutil.*
     ./configure
     [ ... make your own modifications to Makefile as needed ... ]
     make test
     [ ... test zlib with your applications ... ]

This version has more changes to (hopefully) reduce compiler warnings, 
and I added an inflateCopy() function to facilitate random access of 
large deflate streams.  I think that this is the version I will release 
for wider testing, so please give it a try.  Thank you for your support.

mark