Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:08:57 -0800


Corey Minyard wrote:

>
> I'm not sure I follow you here. Do you want to completely separate the
> inflate and deflate stuff (so if something only needs one, it only has
> to include one)? I'm not sure of the value, and it would be kind of a
> pain for maintenance (since zlib is from an external source).
>
> As far as memory management, all the versions I am talking about are
> almost exactly the same, so that shouldn't be a problem.
>

It is external, but it's quite well separated anyway.

Look at the inflate_fs one (fs/inflate_fs); it has both the memory
management dealt with and decompression factored out...

-hpa

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