[Zlib-devel] Causality question

[Patrick Monnerat]

Mark Adler wrote:
> inflate needs the copy to copy over what is being copied in order to
duplicate the initial part of the string.  Usually memcpy() does that,
but it cannot be relied upon for that.

Latest (i.e.: < 3 years old) x86_64 glibc doesn't: this was the cause of
the flash plugin failure:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477

My 2 cents :-)
Patrick