[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.3-cos1

[Cosmin Truta]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:

> Cosmin, you are enough of a C language guru to respect that the
> compiler and environment authors dictate underscore prefixed symbols.

Thanks... I have to admit, though, that my pro-active stance to defend
Standard C has failed. Which is good if you think that it's one less
thing for Mark to arbitrate ;-)

> It's not for us to say if these do anything or not, or if they will
> have good or nefarious effects on another or future compiler.

Generally speaking, it's not for us, indeed. In this particular case,
however, Microsoft did explicitly allowed us to use these symbols
exactly for the purpose I was using them for.

Nevertheless, in case that I will get to release zlib-1.2.3-cos2 before
Mark releases zlib-1.2.3.1, I will move those definitions from zconf.h
to the MSC makefile.

I will also put them in the Visual C++ project. They're innocuous to the
earlier Visual C++ versions, they do what they have to do in VS2005, and
since Microsoft documented them publicly, I trust that they won't
conflict with any future Visual C++ version.

Cheers,
Cosmin