[Zlib-devel] known bugs in distance-checking code?

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp> glennrp at comcast.net
Wed Feb 23 12:16:12 EST 2005



> What we're likely to see is patches that hack the code to change the
> error to a warning (and maybe that force the buffer to be initialized
> or whatever).  Some guidance from you on the most proper compromise
> might be a good idea. ;-)

Initialized to zero would probably be best.  With uninitialized data
I get (in pngcrush) complaints about invalid filter bytes.

Glenn




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