[Zlib-devel] zlib version 1.2.3.8 available for testing

[Philip Lowman]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
> Just in time for Valentine's Day (I know this will make your sweetie swoon), you can download the latest beta of zlib, 1.2.3.8 here:
>
>    http://zlib.net/current/beta/
>
> The changes are listed in ChangeLog.  Unless there are any significant issues, this will become zlib 1.2.4.  Please let me know if you have tested it, and on what.  Thank you for your support.

2 MSVC issues:

The build fails on MSVC due to snprintf() usage.  Here's a patch.
With this, the build succeeds on MSVC9 and the example.exe test
passes.

I also tried MSVC10 beta with 32 & 64 bit builds (with the above patch
applied).  The example.exe test passes for both platforms however
there are 3 warnings with a 64-bit build which should be looked into
by the developers.

Warning	1	warning C4244: '=' : conversion from '__int64' to 'unsigned
int', possible loss of data	..\gzread.c	591
Warning	2	warning C4244: '=' : conversion from '__int64' to 'unsigned
int', possible loss of data	..\gzwrite.c	80
Warning	3	warning C4267: '=' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'unsigned
int', possible loss of data	..\gzwrite.c	274

-- 
Philip Lowman
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