[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4 released

Vincent Torri vtorri at univ-evry.fr
Fri Mar 12 17:57:21 EST 2010



On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Mark Adler wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Gilles Vollant wrote:
>> I think these entry must NOT be removed
>
> But they are currently identical to the non-64 functions on Windows.  They do not provide 64-bit offsets.  Not only do they add no functionality, but it would be misleading to expose them.
>
> For the next version, I hope that we can provide 64-bit offsets for Windows.  This version won't have them.

just a note on Win64, in case you don't know: contrary to all other 64 
bits arch, a lont int is not 64 bits long, but 32 bits long. I don't know 
if you use long int as the size of a pointer, but be aware of that.

Vincent Torri




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