[Zlib-devel] Re: zlib-1.2.0.f-cos2

[Greg Roelofs]

Mark wrote:

> On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Cosmin Truta wrote:
> > To me, knowing that there is hand-written ASM code inside some piece of
> > software means that I have one more reason to worry about correctness.
> > Even more so in zlib, where the ASM code is officially unsupported.

> Ok, so would your application see that bit set and then abort, saying 
> "I'm sorry, but I don't trust your zlib"?

More likely a warning message, I'd expect.

> I'm not real hard over about this either, but there are a limited 
> number of bits available for zlibCompileFlags(), so I want to make sure 
> that they're all useful.  Opinions on this are encouraged.

I wanted something like this in libpng (more to the point, I wanted to
be able to _set_ such things on the fly), so having it in zlib would
be nice, too.  You can always use the final bit to indicate the use of
a second bit flag.

Greg