[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4 released

[Vincent Torri]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Vincent Torri wrote:

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> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Mark Adler wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.

for example, line 321 of gzwrite.c :

for (len = 0; len < state->in; len++)

you compare here an int with a pointer.

Vincent Torri