[Zlib-devel] #ifdef out strerror prototype for VMS

Cosmin Truta cosmin at cs.toronto.edu
Sat Jun 26 00:14:10 EDT 2004


On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Mark Adler wrote:

> On Jun 25, 2004, at 3:32 PM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
> > The total code size increase we observed from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1 was about
> > 11 kbytes.
>
> The new CRC module is quite a bit larger, due to larger tables.
> There's also an #define for that: NOBYFOUR.

It seems to me that the faster CRC was one of the reasons they upgraded
to 1.2.1, and if they #define NOBYFOUR, they will just get back to the
algorithm from 1.1.4. So they probably don't want that. (But it's good
to know why the build is larger.)

Cosmin




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