Annotation of embedaddon/rsync/zlib/ChangeLog, revision 1.1

1.1     ! misho       1: 
        !             2:                 ChangeLog file for zlib
        !             3: 
        !             4: Changes in 1.2.3 (18 July 2005)
        !             5: - Apply security vulnerability fixes to contrib/infback9 as well
        !             6: - Clean up some text files (carriage returns, trailing space)
        !             7: - Update testzlib, vstudio, masmx64, and masmx86 in contrib [Vollant]
        !             8: 
        !             9: Changes in 1.2.2.4 (11 July 2005)
        !            10: - Add inflatePrime() function for starting inflation at bit boundary
        !            11: - Avoid some Visual C warnings in deflate.c
        !            12: - Avoid more silly Visual C warnings in inflate.c and inftrees.c for 64-bit
        !            13:   compile
        !            14: - Fix some spelling errors in comments [Betts]
        !            15: - Correct inflateInit2() error return documentation in zlib.h
        !            16: - Added zran.c example of compressed data random access to examples
        !            17:   directory, shows use of inflatePrime()
        !            18: - Fix cast for assignments to strm->state in inflate.c and infback.c
        !            19: - Fix zlibCompileFlags() in zutil.c to use 1L for long shifts [Oberhumer]
        !            20: - Move declarations of gf2 functions to right place in crc32.c [Oberhumer]
        !            21: - Add cast in trees.c t avoid a warning [Oberhumer]
        !            22: - Avoid some warnings in fitblk.c, gun.c, gzjoin.c in examples [Oberhumer]
        !            23: - Update make_vms.com [Zinser]
        !            24: - Initialize state->write in inflateReset() since copied in inflate_fast()
        !            25: - Be more strict on incomplete code sets in inflate_table() and increase
        !            26:   ENOUGH and MAXD -- this repairs a possible security vulnerability for
        !            27:   invalid inflate input.  Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and Markus Oberhumer for
        !            28:   discovering the vulnerability and providing test cases.
        !            29: - Add ia64 support to configure for HP-UX [Smith]
        !            30: - Add error return to gzread() for format or i/o error [Levin]
        !            31: - Use malloc.h for OS/2 [Necasek]
        !            32: 
        !            33: Changes in 1.2.2.3 (27 May 2005)
        !            34: - Replace 1U constants in inflate.c and inftrees.c for 64-bit compile
        !            35: - Typecast fread() return values in gzio.c [Vollant]
        !            36: - Remove trailing space in minigzip.c outmode (VC++ can't deal with it)
        !            37: - Fix crc check bug in gzread() after gzungetc() [Heiner]
        !            38: - Add the deflateTune() function to adjust internal compression parameters
        !            39: - Add a fast gzip decompressor, gun.c, to examples (use of inflateBack)
        !            40: - Remove an incorrect assertion in examples/zpipe.c
        !            41: - Add C++ wrapper in infback9.h [Donais]
        !            42: - Fix bug in inflateCopy() when decoding fixed codes
        !            43: - Note in zlib.h how much deflateSetDictionary() actually uses
        !            44: - Remove USE_DICT_HEAD in deflate.c (would mess up inflate if used)
        !            45: - Add _WIN32_WCE to define WIN32 in zconf.in.h [Spencer]
        !            46: - Don't include stderr.h or errno.h for _WIN32_WCE in zutil.h [Spencer]
        !            47: - Add gzdirect() function to indicate transparent reads
        !            48: - Update contrib/minizip [Vollant]
        !            49: - Fix compilation of deflate.c when both ASMV and FASTEST [Oberhumer]
        !            50: - Add casts in crc32.c to avoid warnings [Oberhumer]
        !            51: - Add contrib/masmx64 [Vollant]
        !            52: - Update contrib/asm586, asm686, masmx86, testzlib, vstudio [Vollant]
        !            53: 
        !            54: Changes in 1.2.2.2 (30 December 2004)
        !            55: - Replace structure assignments in deflate.c and inflate.c with zmemcpy to
        !            56:   avoid implicit memcpy calls (portability for no-library compilation)
        !            57: - Increase sprintf() buffer size in gzdopen() to allow for large numbers
        !            58: - Add INFLATE_STRICT to check distances against zlib header
        !            59: - Improve WinCE errno handling and comments [Chang]
        !            60: - Remove comment about no gzip header processing in FAQ
        !            61: - Add Z_FIXED strategy option to deflateInit2() to force fixed trees
        !            62: - Add updated make_vms.com [Coghlan], update README
        !            63: - Create a new "examples" directory, move gzappend.c there, add zpipe.c,
        !            64:   fitblk.c, gzlog.[ch], gzjoin.c, and zlib_how.html.
        !            65: - Add FAQ entry and comments in deflate.c on uninitialized memory access
        !            66: - Add Solaris 9 make options in configure [Gilbert]
        !            67: - Allow strerror() usage in gzio.c for STDC
        !            68: - Fix DecompressBuf in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas [ManChesTer]
        !            69: - Update contrib/masmx86/inffas32.asm and gvmat32.asm [Vollant]
        !            70: - Use z_off_t for adler32_combine() and crc32_combine() lengths
        !            71: - Make adler32() much faster for small len
        !            72: - Use OS_CODE in deflate() default gzip header
        !            73: 
        !            74: Changes in 1.2.2.1 (31 October 2004)
        !            75: - Allow inflateSetDictionary() call for raw inflate
        !            76: - Fix inflate header crc check bug for file names and comments
        !            77: - Add deflateSetHeader() and gz_header structure for custom gzip headers
        !            78: - Add inflateGetheader() to retrieve gzip headers
        !            79: - Add crc32_combine() and adler32_combine() functions
        !            80: - Add alloc_func, free_func, in_func, out_func to Z_PREFIX list
        !            81: - Use zstreamp consistently in zlib.h (inflate_back functions)
        !            82: - Remove GUNZIP condition from definition of inflate_mode in inflate.h
        !            83:   and in contrib/inflate86/inffast.S [Truta, Anderson]
        !            84: - Add support for AMD64 in contrib/inflate86/inffas86.c [Anderson]
        !            85: - Update projects/README.projects and projects/visualc6 [Truta]
        !            86: - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta]
        !            87: - Avoid warning under NO_GZCOMPRESS in gzio.c; fix typo [Truta]
        !            88: - Deprecate Z_ASCII; use Z_TEXT instead [Truta]
        !            89: - Use a new algorithm for setting strm->data_type in trees.c [Truta]
        !            90: - Do not define an exit() prototype in zutil.c unless DEBUG defined
        !            91: - Remove prototype of exit() from zutil.c, example.c, minigzip.c [Truta]
        !            92: - Add comment in zlib.h for Z_NO_FLUSH parameter to deflate()
        !            93: - Fix Darwin build version identification [Peterson]
        !            94: 
        !            95: Changes in 1.2.2 (3 October 2004)
        !            96: - Update zlib.h comments on gzip in-memory processing
        !            97: - Set adler to 1 in inflateReset() to support Java test suite [Walles]
        !            98: - Add contrib/dotzlib [Ravn]
        !            99: - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta]
        !           100: - Update contrib/minizip [Vollant]
        !           101: - Move contrib/visual-basic.txt to old/ [Truta]
        !           102: - Fix assembler builds in projects/visualc6/ [Truta]
        !           103: 
        !           104: Changes in 1.2.1.2 (9 September 2004)
        !           105: - Update INDEX file
        !           106: - Fix trees.c to update strm->data_type (no one ever noticed!)
        !           107: - Fix bug in error case in inflate.c, infback.c, and infback9.c [Brown]
        !           108: - Add "volatile" to crc table flag declaration (for DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE)
        !           109: - Add limited multitasking protection to DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE
        !           110: - Add NO_vsnprintf for VMS in zutil.h [Mozilla]
        !           111: - Don't declare strerror() under VMS [Mozilla]
        !           112: - Add comment to DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE to use get_crc_table() to initialize
        !           113: - Update contrib/ada [Anisimkov]
        !           114: - Update contrib/minizip [Vollant]
        !           115: - Fix configure to not hardcode directories for Darwin [Peterson]
        !           116: - Fix gzio.c to not return error on empty files [Brown]
        !           117: - Fix indentation; update version in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas and
        !           118:   contrib/pascal/zlibpas.pas [Truta]
        !           119: - Update mkasm.bat in contrib/masmx86 [Truta]
        !           120: - Update contrib/untgz [Truta]
        !           121: - Add projects/README.projects [Truta]
        !           122: - Add project for MS Visual C++ 6.0 in projects/visualc6 [Cadieux, Truta]
        !           123: - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta]
        !           124: - Update list of Z_PREFIX symbols in zconf.h [Randers-Pehrson, Truta]
        !           125: - Remove an unnecessary assignment to curr in inftrees.c [Truta]
        !           126: - Add OS/2 to exe builds in configure [Poltorak]
        !           127: - Remove err dummy parameter in zlib.h [Kientzle]
        !           128: 
        !           129: Changes in 1.2.1.1 (9 January 2004)
        !           130: - Update email address in README
        !           131: - Several FAQ updates
        !           132: - Fix a big fat bug in inftrees.c that prevented decoding valid
        !           133:   dynamic blocks with only literals and no distance codes --
        !           134:   Thanks to "Hot Emu" for the bug report and sample file
        !           135: - Add a note to puff.c on no distance codes case.
        !           136: 
        !           137: Changes in 1.2.1 (17 November 2003)
        !           138: - Remove a tab in contrib/gzappend/gzappend.c
        !           139: - Update some interfaces in contrib for new zlib functions
        !           140: - Update zlib version number in some contrib entries
        !           141: - Add Windows CE definition for ptrdiff_t in zutil.h [Mai, Truta]
        !           142: - Support shared libraries on Hurd and KFreeBSD [Brown]
        !           143: - Fix error in NO_DIVIDE option of adler32.c
        !           144: 
        !           145: Changes in 1.2.0.8 (4 November 2003)
        !           146: - Update version in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas and contrib/pascal/zlibpas.pas
        !           147: - Add experimental NO_DIVIDE #define in adler32.c
        !           148:     - Possibly faster on some processors (let me know if it is)
        !           149: - Correct Z_BLOCK to not return on first inflate call if no wrap
        !           150: - Fix strm->data_type on inflate() return to correctly indicate EOB
        !           151: - Add deflatePrime() function for appending in the middle of a byte
        !           152: - Add contrib/gzappend for an example of appending to a stream
        !           153: - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta]
        !           154: - Delete Turbo C comment in README [Truta]
        !           155: - Improve some indentation in zconf.h [Truta]
        !           156: - Fix infinite loop on bad input in configure script [Church]
        !           157: - Fix gzeof() for concatenated gzip files [Johnson]
        !           158: - Add example to contrib/visual-basic.txt [Michael B.]
        !           159: - Add -p to mkdir's in Makefile.in [vda]
        !           160: - Fix configure to properly detect presence or lack of printf functions
        !           161: - Add AS400 support [Monnerat]
        !           162: - Add a little Cygwin support [Wilson]
        !           163: 
        !           164: Changes in 1.2.0.7 (21 September 2003)
        !           165: - Correct some debug formats in contrib/infback9
        !           166: - Cast a type in a debug statement in trees.c
        !           167: - Change search and replace delimiter in configure from % to # [Beebe]
        !           168: - Update contrib/untgz to 0.2 with various fixes [Truta]
        !           169: - Add build support for Amiga [Nikl]
        !           170: - Remove some directories in old that have been updated to 1.2
        !           171: - Add dylib building for Mac OS X in configure and Makefile.in
        !           172: - Remove old distribution stuff from Makefile
        !           173: - Update README to point to DLL_FAQ.txt, and add comment on Mac OS X
        !           174: - Update links in README
        !           175: 
        !           176: Changes in 1.2.0.6 (13 September 2003)
        !           177: - Minor FAQ updates
        !           178: - Update contrib/minizip to 1.00 [Vollant]
        !           179: - Remove test of gz functions in example.c when GZ_COMPRESS defined [Truta]
        !           180: - Update POSTINC comment for 68060 [Nikl]
        !           181: - Add contrib/infback9 with deflate64 decoding (unsupported)
        !           182: - For MVS define NO_vsnprintf and undefine FAR [van Burik]
        !           183: - Add pragma for fdopen on MVS [van Burik]
        !           184: 
        !           185: Changes in 1.2.0.5 (8 September 2003)
        !           186: - Add OF to inflateBackEnd() declaration in zlib.h
        !           187: - Remember start when using gzdopen in the middle of a file
        !           188: - Use internal off_t counters in gz* functions to properly handle seeks
        !           189: - Perform more rigorous check for distance-too-far in inffast.c
        !           190: - Add Z_BLOCK flush option to return from inflate at block boundary
        !           191: - Set strm->data_type on return from inflate
        !           192:     - Indicate bits unused, if at block boundary, and if in last block
        !           193: - Replace size_t with ptrdiff_t in crc32.c, and check for correct size
        !           194: - Add condition so old NO_DEFLATE define still works for compatibility
        !           195: - FAQ update regarding the Windows DLL [Truta]
        !           196: - INDEX update: add qnx entry, remove aix entry [Truta]
        !           197: - Install zlib.3 into mandir [Wilson]
        !           198: - Move contrib/zlib_dll_FAQ.txt to win32/DLL_FAQ.txt; update [Truta]
        !           199: - Adapt the zlib interface to the new DLL convention guidelines [Truta]
        !           200: - Introduce ZLIB_WINAPI macro to allow the export of functions using
        !           201:   the WINAPI calling convention, for Visual Basic [Vollant, Truta]
        !           202: - Update msdos and win32 scripts and makefiles [Truta]
        !           203: - Export symbols by name, not by ordinal, in win32/zlib.def [Truta]
        !           204: - Add contrib/ada [Anisimkov]
        !           205: - Move asm files from contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to contrib/asm386 [Truta]
        !           206: - Rename contrib/asm386 to contrib/masmx86 [Truta, Vollant]
        !           207: - Add contrib/masm686 [Truta]
        !           208: - Fix offsets in contrib/inflate86 and contrib/masmx86/inffas32.asm
        !           209:   [Truta, Vollant]
        !           210: - Update contrib/delphi; rename to contrib/pascal; add example [Truta]
        !           211: - Remove contrib/delphi2; add a new contrib/delphi [Truta]
        !           212: - Avoid inclusion of the nonstandard <memory.h> in contrib/iostream,
        !           213:   and fix some method prototypes [Truta]
        !           214: - Fix the ZCR_SEED2 constant to avoid warnings in contrib/minizip
        !           215:   [Truta]
        !           216: - Avoid the use of backslash (\) in contrib/minizip [Vollant]
        !           217: - Fix file time handling in contrib/untgz; update makefiles [Truta]
        !           218: - Update contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to comply with the new DLL guidelines
        !           219:   [Vollant]
        !           220: - Remove contrib/vstudio/vc15_16 [Vollant]
        !           221: - Rename contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to contrib/vstudio/vc7 [Truta]
        !           222: - Update README.contrib [Truta]
        !           223: - Invert the assignment order of match_head and s->prev[...] in
        !           224:   INSERT_STRING [Truta]
        !           225: - Compare TOO_FAR with 32767 instead of 32768, to avoid 16-bit warnings
        !           226:   [Truta]
        !           227: - Compare function pointers with 0, not with NULL or Z_NULL [Truta]
        !           228: - Fix prototype of syncsearch in inflate.c [Truta]
        !           229: - Introduce ASMINF macro to be enabled when using an ASM implementation
        !           230:   of inflate_fast [Truta]
        !           231: - Change NO_DEFLATE to NO_GZCOMPRESS [Truta]
        !           232: - Modify test_gzio in example.c to take a single file name as a
        !           233:   parameter [Truta]
        !           234: - Exit the example.c program if gzopen fails [Truta]
        !           235: - Add type casts around strlen in example.c [Truta]
        !           236: - Remove casting to sizeof in minigzip.c; give a proper type
        !           237:   to the variable compared with SUFFIX_LEN [Truta]
        !           238: - Update definitions of STDC and STDC99 in zconf.h [Truta]
        !           239: - Synchronize zconf.h with the new Windows DLL interface [Truta]
        !           240: - Use SYS16BIT instead of __32BIT__ to distinguish between
        !           241:   16- and 32-bit platforms [Truta]
        !           242: - Use far memory allocators in small 16-bit memory models for
        !           243:   Turbo C [Truta]
        !           244: - Add info about the use of ASMV, ASMINF and ZLIB_WINAPI in
        !           245:   zlibCompileFlags [Truta]
        !           246: - Cygwin has vsnprintf [Wilson]
        !           247: - In Windows16, OS_CODE is 0, as in MSDOS [Truta]
        !           248: - In Cygwin, OS_CODE is 3 (Unix), not 11 (Windows32) [Wilson]
        !           249: 
        !           250: Changes in 1.2.0.4 (10 August 2003)
        !           251: - Minor FAQ updates
        !           252: - Be more strict when checking inflateInit2's windowBits parameter
        !           253: - Change NO_GUNZIP compile option to NO_GZIP to cover deflate as well
        !           254: - Add gzip wrapper option to deflateInit2 using windowBits
        !           255: - Add updated QNX rule in configure and qnx directory [Bonnefoy]
        !           256: - Make inflate distance-too-far checks more rigorous
        !           257: - Clean up FAR usage in inflate
        !           258: - Add casting to sizeof() in gzio.c and minigzip.c
        !           259: 
        !           260: Changes in 1.2.0.3 (19 July 2003)
        !           261: - Fix silly error in gzungetc() implementation [Vollant]
        !           262: - Update contrib/minizip and contrib/vstudio [Vollant]
        !           263: - Fix printf format in example.c
        !           264: - Correct cdecl support in zconf.in.h [Anisimkov]
        !           265: - Minor FAQ updates
        !           266: 
        !           267: Changes in 1.2.0.2 (13 July 2003)
        !           268: - Add ZLIB_VERNUM in zlib.h for numerical preprocessor comparisons
        !           269: - Attempt to avoid warnings in crc32.c for pointer-int conversion
        !           270: - Add AIX to configure, remove aix directory [Bakker]
        !           271: - Add some casts to minigzip.c
        !           272: - Improve checking after insecure sprintf() or vsprintf() calls
        !           273: - Remove #elif's from crc32.c
        !           274: - Change leave label to inf_leave in inflate.c and infback.c to avoid
        !           275:   library conflicts
        !           276: - Remove inflate gzip decoding by default--only enable gzip decoding by
        !           277:   special request for stricter backward compatibility
        !           278: - Add zlibCompileFlags() function to return compilation information
        !           279: - More typecasting in deflate.c to avoid warnings
        !           280: - Remove leading underscore from _Capital #defines [Truta]
        !           281: - Fix configure to link shared library when testing
        !           282: - Add some Windows CE target adjustments [Mai]
        !           283: - Remove #define ZLIB_DLL in zconf.h [Vollant]
        !           284: - Add zlib.3 [Rodgers]
        !           285: - Update RFC URL in deflate.c and algorithm.txt [Mai]
        !           286: - Add zlib_dll_FAQ.txt to contrib [Truta]
        !           287: - Add UL to some constants [Truta]
        !           288: - Update minizip and vstudio [Vollant]
        !           289: - Remove vestigial NEED_DUMMY_RETURN from zconf.in.h
        !           290: - Expand use of NO_DUMMY_DECL to avoid all dummy structures
        !           291: - Added iostream3 to contrib [Schwardt]
        !           292: - Replace rewind() with fseek() for WinCE [Truta]
        !           293: - Improve setting of zlib format compression level flags
        !           294:     - Report 0 for huffman and rle strategies and for level == 0 or 1
        !           295:     - Report 2 only for level == 6
        !           296: - Only deal with 64K limit when necessary at compile time [Truta]
        !           297: - Allow TOO_FAR check to be turned off at compile time [Truta]
        !           298: - Add gzclearerr() function [Souza]
        !           299: - Add gzungetc() function
        !           300: 
        !           301: Changes in 1.2.0.1 (17 March 2003)
        !           302: - Add Z_RLE strategy for run-length encoding [Truta]
        !           303:     - When Z_RLE requested, restrict matches to distance one
        !           304:     - Update zlib.h, minigzip.c, gzopen(), gzdopen() for Z_RLE
        !           305: - Correct FASTEST compilation to allow level == 0
        !           306: - Clean up what gets compiled for FASTEST
        !           307: - Incorporate changes to zconf.in.h [Vollant]
        !           308:     - Refine detection of Turbo C need for dummy returns
        !           309:     - Refine ZLIB_DLL compilation
        !           310:     - Include additional header file on VMS for off_t typedef
        !           311: - Try to use _vsnprintf where it supplants vsprintf [Vollant]
        !           312: - Add some casts in inffast.c
        !           313: - Enchance comments in zlib.h on what happens if gzprintf() tries to
        !           314:   write more than 4095 bytes before compression
        !           315: - Remove unused state from inflateBackEnd()
        !           316: - Remove exit(0) from minigzip.c, example.c
        !           317: - Get rid of all those darn tabs
        !           318: - Add "check" target to Makefile.in that does the same thing as "test"
        !           319: - Add "mostlyclean" and "maintainer-clean" targets to Makefile.in
        !           320: - Update contrib/inflate86 [Anderson]
        !           321: - Update contrib/testzlib, contrib/vstudio, contrib/minizip [Vollant]
        !           322: - Add msdos and win32 directories with makefiles [Truta]
        !           323: - More additions and improvements to the FAQ
        !           324: 
        !           325: Changes in 1.2.0 (9 March 2003)
        !           326: - New and improved inflate code
        !           327:     - About 20% faster
        !           328:     - Does not allocate 32K window unless and until needed
        !           329:     - Automatically detects and decompresses gzip streams
        !           330:     - Raw inflate no longer needs an extra dummy byte at end
        !           331:     - Added inflateBack functions using a callback interface--even faster
        !           332:       than inflate, useful for file utilities (gzip, zip)
        !           333:     - Added inflateCopy() function to record state for random access on
        !           334:       externally generated deflate streams (e.g. in gzip files)
        !           335:     - More readable code (I hope)
        !           336: - New and improved crc32()
        !           337:     - About 50% faster, thanks to suggestions from Rodney Brown
        !           338: - Add deflateBound() and compressBound() functions
        !           339: - Fix memory leak in deflateInit2()
        !           340: - Permit setting dictionary for raw deflate (for parallel deflate)
        !           341: - Fix const declaration for gzwrite()
        !           342: - Check for some malloc() failures in gzio.c
        !           343: - Fix bug in gzopen() on single-byte file 0x1f
        !           344: - Fix bug in gzread() on concatenated file with 0x1f at end of buffer
        !           345:   and next buffer doesn't start with 0x8b
        !           346: - Fix uncompress() to return Z_DATA_ERROR on truncated input
        !           347: - Free memory at end of example.c
        !           348: - Remove MAX #define in trees.c (conflicted with some libraries)
        !           349: - Fix static const's in deflate.c, gzio.c, and zutil.[ch]
        !           350: - Declare malloc() and free() in gzio.c if STDC not defined
        !           351: - Use malloc() instead of calloc() in zutil.c if int big enough
        !           352: - Define STDC for AIX
        !           353: - Add aix/ with approach for compiling shared library on AIX
        !           354: - Add HP-UX support for shared libraries in configure
        !           355: - Add OpenUNIX support for shared libraries in configure
        !           356: - Use $cc instead of gcc to build shared library
        !           357: - Make prefix directory if needed when installing
        !           358: - Correct Macintosh avoidance of typedef Byte in zconf.h
        !           359: - Correct Turbo C memory allocation when under Linux
        !           360: - Use libz.a instead of -lz in Makefile (assure use of compiled library)
        !           361: - Update configure to check for snprintf or vsnprintf functions and their
        !           362:   return value, warn during make if using an insecure function
        !           363: - Fix configure problem with compile-time knowledge of HAVE_UNISTD_H that
        !           364:   is lost when library is used--resolution is to build new zconf.h
        !           365: - Documentation improvements (in zlib.h):
        !           366:     - Document raw deflate and inflate
        !           367:     - Update RFCs URL
        !           368:     - Point out that zlib and gzip formats are different
        !           369:     - Note that Z_BUF_ERROR is not fatal
        !           370:     - Document string limit for gzprintf() and possible buffer overflow
        !           371:     - Note requirement on avail_out when flushing
        !           372:     - Note permitted values of flush parameter of inflate()
        !           373: - Add some FAQs (and even answers) to the FAQ
        !           374: - Add contrib/inflate86/ for x86 faster inflate
        !           375: - Add contrib/blast/ for PKWare Data Compression Library decompression
        !           376: - Add contrib/puff/ simple inflate for deflate format description
        !           377: 
        !           378: Changes in 1.1.4 (11 March 2002)
        !           379: - ZFREE was repeated on same allocation on some error conditions.
        !           380:   This creates a security problem described in
        !           381:   http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt
        !           382: - Returned incorrect error (Z_MEM_ERROR) on some invalid data
        !           383: - Avoid accesses before window for invalid distances with inflate window
        !           384:   less than 32K.
        !           385: - force windowBits > 8 to avoid a bug in the encoder for a window size
        !           386:   of 256 bytes. (A complete fix will be available in 1.1.5).
        !           387: 
        !           388: Changes in 1.1.3 (9 July 1998)
        !           389: - fix "an inflate input buffer bug that shows up on rare but persistent
        !           390:   occasions" (Mark)
        !           391: - fix gzread and gztell for concatenated .gz files (Didier Le Botlan)
        !           392: - fix gzseek(..., SEEK_SET) in write mode
        !           393: - fix crc check after a gzeek (Frank Faubert)
        !           394: - fix miniunzip when the last entry in a zip file is itself a zip file
        !           395:   (J Lillge)
        !           396: - add contrib/asm586 and contrib/asm686 (Brian Raiter)
        !           397:   See http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/assembly.html
        !           398: - add support for Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi (Bob Dellaca)
        !           399: - add support for C++Builder 3 and Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi2 (Davide Moretti)
        !           400: - do not exit prematurely in untgz if 0 at start of block (Magnus Holmgren)
        !           401: - use macro EXTERN instead of extern to support DLL for BeOS (Sander Stoks)
        !           402: - added a FAQ file
        !           403: 
        !           404: - Support gzdopen on Mac with Metrowerks (Jason Linhart)
        !           405: - Do not redefine Byte on Mac (Brad Pettit & Jason Linhart)
        !           406: - define SEEK_END too if SEEK_SET is not defined (Albert Chin-A-Young)
        !           407: - avoid some warnings with Borland C (Tom Tanner)
        !           408: - fix a problem in contrib/minizip/zip.c for 16-bit MSDOS (Gilles Vollant)
        !           409: - emulate utime() for WIN32 in contrib/untgz  (Gilles Vollant)
        !           410: - allow several arguments to configure (Tim Mooney, Frodo Looijaard)
        !           411: - use libdir and includedir in Makefile.in (Tim Mooney)
        !           412: - support shared libraries on OSF1 V4 (Tim Mooney)
        !           413: - remove so_locations in "make clean"  (Tim Mooney)
        !           414: - fix maketree.c compilation error (Glenn, Mark)
        !           415: - Python interface to zlib now in Python 1.5 (Jeremy Hylton)
        !           416: - new Makefile.riscos (Rich Walker)
        !           417: - initialize static descriptors in trees.c for embedded targets (Nick Smith)
        !           418: - use "foo-gz" in example.c for RISCOS and VMS (Nick Smith)
        !           419: - add the OS/2 files in Makefile.in too (Andrew Zabolotny)
        !           420: - fix fdopen and halloc macros for Microsoft C 6.0 (Tom Lane)
        !           421: - fix maketree.c to allow clean compilation of inffixed.h (Mark)
        !           422: - fix parameter check in deflateCopy (Gunther Nikl)
        !           423: - cleanup trees.c, use compressed_len only in debug mode (Christian Spieler)
        !           424: - Many portability patches by Christian Spieler:
        !           425:   . zutil.c, zutil.h: added "const" for zmem*
        !           426:   . Make_vms.com: fixed some typos
        !           427:   . Make_vms.com: msdos/Makefile.*: removed zutil.h from some dependency lists
        !           428:   . msdos/Makefile.msc: remove "default rtl link library" info from obj files
        !           429:   . msdos/Makefile.*: use model-dependent name for the built zlib library
        !           430:   . msdos/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.gcc:
        !           431:      new makefiles, for emx (DOS/OS2), emx&rsxnt and mingw32 (Windows 9x / NT)
        !           432: - use define instead of typedef for Bytef also for MSC small/medium (Tom Lane)
        !           433: - replace __far with _far for better portability (Christian Spieler, Tom Lane)
        !           434: - fix test for errno.h in configure (Tim Newsham)
        !           435: 
        !           436: Changes in 1.1.2 (19 March 98)
        !           437: - added contrib/minzip, mini zip and unzip based on zlib (Gilles Vollant)
        !           438:   See http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html
        !           439: - preinitialize the inflate tables for fixed codes, to make the code
        !           440:   completely thread safe (Mark)
        !           441: - some simplifications and slight speed-up to the inflate code (Mark)
        !           442: - fix gzeof on non-compressed files (Allan Schrum)
        !           443: - add -std1 option in configure for OSF1 to fix gzprintf (Martin Mokrejs)
        !           444: - use default value of 4K for Z_BUFSIZE for 16-bit MSDOS (Tim Wegner + Glenn)
        !           445: - added os2/Makefile.def and os2/zlib.def (Andrew Zabolotny)
        !           446: - add shared lib support for UNIX_SV4.2MP (MATSUURA Takanori)
        !           447: - do not wrap extern "C" around system includes (Tom Lane)
        !           448: - mention zlib binding for TCL in README (Andreas Kupries)
        !           449: - added amiga/Makefile.pup for Amiga powerUP SAS/C PPC (Andreas Kleinert)
        !           450: - allow "make install prefix=..." even after configure (Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
        !           451: - allow "configure --prefix $HOME" (Tim Mooney)
        !           452: - remove warnings in example.c and gzio.c (Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
        !           453: - move Makefile.sas to amiga/Makefile.sas
        !           454: 
        !           455: Changes in 1.1.1 (27 Feb 98)
        !           456: - fix macros _tr_tally_* in deflate.h for debug mode  (Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
        !           457: - remove block truncation heuristic which had very marginal effect for zlib
        !           458:   (smaller lit_bufsize than in gzip 1.2.4) and degraded a little the
        !           459:   compression ratio on some files. This also allows inlining _tr_tally for
        !           460:   matches in deflate_slow.
        !           461: - added msdos/Makefile.w32 for WIN32 Microsoft Visual C++ (Bob Frazier)
        !           462: 
        !           463: Changes in 1.1.0 (24 Feb 98)
        !           464: - do not return STREAM_END prematurely in inflate (John Bowler)
        !           465: - revert to the zlib 1.0.8 inflate to avoid the gcc 2.8.0 bug (Jeremy Buhler)
        !           466: - compile with -DFASTEST to get compression code optimized for speed only
        !           467: - in minigzip, try mmap'ing the input file first (Miguel Albrecht)
        !           468: - increase size of I/O buffers in minigzip.c and gzio.c (not a big gain
        !           469:   on Sun but significant on HP)
        !           470: 
        !           471: - add a pointer to experimental unzip library in README (Gilles Vollant)
        !           472: - initialize variable gcc in configure (Chris Herborth)
        !           473: 
        !           474: Changes in 1.0.9 (17 Feb 1998)
        !           475: - added gzputs and gzgets functions
        !           476: - do not clear eof flag in gzseek (Mark Diekhans)
        !           477: - fix gzseek for files in transparent mode (Mark Diekhans)
        !           478: - do not assume that vsprintf returns the number of bytes written (Jens Krinke)
        !           479: - replace EXPORT with ZEXPORT to avoid conflict with other programs
        !           480: - added compress2 in zconf.h, zlib.def, zlib.dnt
        !           481: - new asm code from Gilles Vollant in contrib/asm386
        !           482: - simplify the inflate code (Mark):
        !           483:  . Replace ZALLOC's in huft_build() with single ZALLOC in inflate_blocks_new()
        !           484:  . ZALLOC the length list in inflate_trees_fixed() instead of using stack
        !           485:  . ZALLOC the value area for huft_build() instead of using stack
        !           486:  . Simplify Z_FINISH check in inflate()
        !           487: 
        !           488: - Avoid gcc 2.8.0 comparison bug a little differently than zlib 1.0.8
        !           489: - in inftrees.c, avoid cc -O bug on HP (Farshid Elahi)
        !           490: - in zconf.h move the ZLIB_DLL stuff earlier to avoid problems with
        !           491:   the declaration of FAR (Gilles VOllant)
        !           492: - install libz.so* with mode 755 (executable) instead of 644 (Marc Lehmann)
        !           493: - read_buf buf parameter of type Bytef* instead of charf*
        !           494: - zmemcpy parameters are of type Bytef*, not charf* (Joseph Strout)
        !           495: - do not redeclare unlink in minigzip.c for WIN32 (John Bowler)
        !           496: - fix check for presence of directories in "make install" (Ian Willis)
        !           497: 
        !           498: Changes in 1.0.8 (27 Jan 1998)
        !           499: - fixed offsets in contrib/asm386/gvmat32.asm (Gilles Vollant)
        !           500: - fix gzgetc and gzputc for big endian systems (Markus Oberhumer)
        !           501: - added compress2() to allow setting the compression level
        !           502: - include sys/types.h to get off_t on some systems (Marc Lehmann & QingLong)
        !           503: - use constant arrays for the static trees in trees.c instead of computing
        !           504:   them at run time (thanks to Ken Raeburn for this suggestion). To create
        !           505:   trees.h, compile with GEN_TREES_H and run "make test".
        !           506: - check return code of example in "make test" and display result
        !           507: - pass minigzip command line options to file_compress
        !           508: - simplifying code of inflateSync to avoid gcc 2.8 bug
        !           509: 
        !           510: - support CC="gcc -Wall" in configure -s (QingLong)
        !           511: - avoid a flush caused by ftell in gzopen for write mode (Ken Raeburn)
        !           512: - fix test for shared library support to avoid compiler warnings
        !           513: - zlib.lib -> zlib.dll in msdos/zlib.rc (Gilles Vollant)
        !           514: - check for TARGET_OS_MAC in addition to MACOS (Brad Pettit)
        !           515: - do not use fdopen for Metrowerks on Mac (Brad Pettit))
        !           516: - add checks for gzputc and gzputc in example.c
        !           517: - avoid warnings in gzio.c and deflate.c (Andreas Kleinert)
        !           518: - use const for the CRC table (Ken Raeburn)
        !           519: - fixed "make uninstall" for shared libraries
        !           520: - use Tracev instead of Trace in infblock.c
        !           521: - in example.c use correct compressed length for test_sync
        !           522: - suppress +vnocompatwarnings in configure for HPUX (not always supported)
        !           523: 
        !           524: Changes in 1.0.7 (20 Jan 1998)
        !           525: - fix gzseek which was broken in write mode
        !           526: - return error for gzseek to negative absolute position
        !           527: - fix configure for Linux (Chun-Chung Chen)
        !           528: - increase stack space for MSC (Tim Wegner)
        !           529: - get_crc_table and inflateSyncPoint are EXPORTed (Gilles Vollant)
        !           530: - define EXPORTVA for gzprintf (Gilles Vollant)
        !           531: - added man page zlib.3 (Rick Rodgers)
        !           532: - for contrib/untgz, fix makedir() and improve Makefile
        !           533: 
        !           534: - check gzseek in write mode in example.c
        !           535: - allocate extra buffer for seeks only if gzseek is actually called
        !           536: - avoid signed/unsigned comparisons (Tim Wegner, Gilles Vollant)
        !           537: - add inflateSyncPoint in zconf.h
        !           538: - fix list of exported functions in nt/zlib.dnt and mdsos/zlib.def
        !           539: 
        !           540: Changes in 1.0.6 (19 Jan 1998)
        !           541: - add functions gzprintf, gzputc, gzgetc, gztell, gzeof, gzseek, gzrewind and
        !           542:   gzsetparams (thanks to Roland Giersig and Kevin Ruland for some of this code)
        !           543: - Fix a deflate bug occurring only with compression level 0 (thanks to
        !           544:   Andy Buckler for finding this one).
        !           545: - In minigzip, pass transparently also the first byte for .Z files.
        !           546: - return Z_BUF_ERROR instead of Z_OK if output buffer full in uncompress()
        !           547: - check Z_FINISH in inflate (thanks to Marc Schluper)
        !           548: - Implement deflateCopy (thanks to Adam Costello)
        !           549: - make static libraries by default in configure, add --shared option.
        !           550: - move MSDOS or Windows specific files to directory msdos
        !           551: - suppress the notion of partial flush to simplify the interface
        !           552:   (but the symbol Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is kept for compatibility with 1.0.4)
        !           553: - suppress history buffer provided by application to simplify the interface
        !           554:   (this feature was not implemented anyway in 1.0.4)
        !           555: - next_in and avail_in must be initialized before calling inflateInit or
        !           556:   inflateInit2
        !           557: - add EXPORT in all exported functions (for Windows DLL)
        !           558: - added Makefile.nt (thanks to Stephen Williams)
        !           559: - added the unsupported "contrib" directory:
        !           560:    contrib/asm386/ by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>
        !           561:         386 asm code replacing longest_match().
        !           562:    contrib/iostream/ by Kevin Ruland <kevin@rodin.wustl.edu>
        !           563:         A C++ I/O streams interface to the zlib gz* functions
        !           564:    contrib/iostream2/  by Tyge Løvset <Tyge.Lovset@cmr.no>
        !           565:         Another C++ I/O streams interface
        !           566:    contrib/untgz/  by "Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez" <paag@tid.es>
        !           567:         A very simple tar.gz file extractor using zlib
        !           568:    contrib/visual-basic.txt by Carlos Rios <c_rios@sonda.cl>
        !           569:         How to use compress(), uncompress() and the gz* functions from VB.
        !           570: - pass params -f (filtered data), -h (huffman only), -1 to -9 (compression
        !           571:   level) in minigzip (thanks to Tom Lane)
        !           572: 
        !           573: - use const for rommable constants in deflate
        !           574: - added test for gzseek and gztell in example.c
        !           575: - add undocumented function inflateSyncPoint() (hack for Paul Mackerras)
        !           576: - add undocumented function zError to convert error code to string
        !           577:   (for Tim Smithers)
        !           578: - Allow compilation of gzio with -DNO_DEFLATE to avoid the compression code.
        !           579: - Use default memcpy for Symantec MSDOS compiler.
        !           580: - Add EXPORT keyword for check_func (needed for Windows DLL)
        !           581: - add current directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for "make test"
        !           582: - create also a link for libz.so.1
        !           583: - added support for FUJITSU UXP/DS (thanks to Toshiaki Nomura)
        !           584: - use $(SHAREDLIB) instead of libz.so in Makefile.in (for HPUX)
        !           585: - added -soname for Linux in configure (Chun-Chung Chen,
        !           586: - assign numbers to the exported functions in zlib.def (for Windows DLL)
        !           587: - add advice in zlib.h for best usage of deflateSetDictionary
        !           588: - work around compiler bug on Atari (cast Z_NULL in call of s->checkfn)
        !           589: - allow compilation with ANSI keywords only enabled for TurboC in large model
        !           590: - avoid "versionString"[0] (Borland bug)
        !           591: - add NEED_DUMMY_RETURN for Borland
        !           592: - use variable z_verbose for tracing in debug mode (L. Peter Deutsch).
        !           593: - allow compilation with CC
        !           594: - defined STDC for OS/2 (David Charlap)
        !           595: - limit external names to 8 chars for MVS (Thomas Lund)
        !           596: - in minigzip.c, use static buffers only for 16-bit systems
        !           597: - fix suffix check for "minigzip -d foo.gz"
        !           598: - do not return an error for the 2nd of two consecutive gzflush() (Felix Lee)
        !           599: - use _fdopen instead of fdopen for MSC >= 6.0 (Thomas Fanslau)
        !           600: - added makelcc.bat for lcc-win32 (Tom St Denis)
        !           601: - in Makefile.dj2, use copy and del instead of install and rm (Frank Donahoe)
        !           602: - Avoid expanded $Id$. Use "rcs -kb" or "cvs admin -kb" to avoid Id expansion.
        !           603: - check for unistd.h in configure (for off_t)
        !           604: - remove useless check parameter in inflate_blocks_free
        !           605: - avoid useless assignment of s->check to itself in inflate_blocks_new
        !           606: - do not flush twice in gzclose (thanks to Ken Raeburn)
        !           607: - rename FOPEN as F_OPEN to avoid clash with /usr/include/sys/file.h
        !           608: - use NO_ERRNO_H instead of enumeration of operating systems with errno.h
        !           609: - work around buggy fclose on pipes for HP/UX
        !           610: - support zlib DLL with BORLAND C++ 5.0 (thanks to Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
        !           611: - fix configure if CC is already equal to gcc
        !           612: 
        !           613: Changes in 1.0.5 (3 Jan 98)
        !           614: - Fix inflate to terminate gracefully when fed corrupted or invalid data
        !           615: - Use const for rommable constants in inflate
        !           616: - Eliminate memory leaks on error conditions in inflate
        !           617: - Removed some vestigial code in inflate
        !           618: - Update web address in README
        !           619: 
        !           620: Changes in 1.0.4 (24 Jul 96)
        !           621: - In very rare conditions, deflate(s, Z_FINISH) could fail to produce an EOF
        !           622:   bit, so the decompressor could decompress all the correct data but went
        !           623:   on to attempt decompressing extra garbage data. This affected minigzip too.
        !           624: - zlibVersion and gzerror return const char* (needed for DLL)
        !           625: - port to RISCOS (no fdopen, no multiple dots, no unlink, no fileno)
        !           626: - use z_error only for DEBUG (avoid problem with DLLs)
        !           627: 
        !           628: Changes in 1.0.3 (2 Jul 96)
        !           629: - use z_streamp instead of z_stream *, which is now a far pointer in MSDOS
        !           630:   small and medium models; this makes the library incompatible with previous
        !           631:   versions for these models. (No effect in large model or on other systems.)
        !           632: - return OK instead of BUF_ERROR if previous deflate call returned with
        !           633:   avail_out as zero but there is nothing to do
        !           634: - added memcmp for non STDC compilers
        !           635: - define NO_DUMMY_DECL for more Mac compilers (.h files merged incorrectly)
        !           636: - define __32BIT__ if __386__ or i386 is defined (pb. with Watcom and SCO)
        !           637: - better check for 16-bit mode MSC (avoids problem with Symantec)
        !           638: 
        !           639: Changes in 1.0.2 (23 May 96)
        !           640: - added Windows DLL support
        !           641: - added a function zlibVersion (for the DLL support)
        !           642: - fixed declarations using Bytef in infutil.c (pb with MSDOS medium model)
        !           643: - Bytef is define's instead of typedef'd only for Borland C
        !           644: - avoid reading uninitialized memory in example.c
        !           645: - mention in README that the zlib format is now RFC1950
        !           646: - updated Makefile.dj2
        !           647: - added algorithm.doc
        !           648: 
        !           649: Changes in 1.0.1 (20 May 96) [1.0 skipped to avoid confusion]
        !           650: - fix array overlay in deflate.c which sometimes caused bad compressed data
        !           651: - fix inflate bug with empty stored block
        !           652: - fix MSDOS medium model which was broken in 0.99
        !           653: - fix deflateParams() which could generated bad compressed data.
        !           654: - Bytef is define'd instead of typedef'ed (work around Borland bug)
        !           655: - added an INDEX file
        !           656: - new makefiles for DJGPP (Makefile.dj2), 32-bit Borland (Makefile.b32),
        !           657:   Watcom (Makefile.wat), Amiga SAS/C (Makefile.sas)
        !           658: - speed up adler32 for modern machines without auto-increment
        !           659: - added -ansi for IRIX in configure
        !           660: - static_init_done in trees.c is an int
        !           661: - define unlink as delete for VMS
        !           662: - fix configure for QNX
        !           663: - add configure branch for SCO and HPUX
        !           664: - avoid many warnings (unused variables, dead assignments, etc...)
        !           665: - no fdopen for BeOS
        !           666: - fix the Watcom fix for 32 bit mode (define FAR as empty)
        !           667: - removed redefinition of Byte for MKWERKS
        !           668: - work around an MWKERKS bug (incorrect merge of all .h files)
        !           669: 
        !           670: Changes in 0.99 (27 Jan 96)
        !           671: - allow preset dictionary shared between compressor and decompressor
        !           672: - allow compression level 0 (no compression)
        !           673: - add deflateParams in zlib.h: allow dynamic change of compression level
        !           674:   and compression strategy.
        !           675: - test large buffers and deflateParams in example.c
        !           676: - add optional "configure" to build zlib as a shared library
        !           677: - suppress Makefile.qnx, use configure instead
        !           678: - fixed deflate for 64-bit systems (detected on Cray)
        !           679: - fixed inflate_blocks for 64-bit systems (detected on Alpha)
        !           680: - declare Z_DEFLATED in zlib.h (possible parameter for deflateInit2)
        !           681: - always return Z_BUF_ERROR when deflate() has nothing to do
        !           682: - deflateInit and inflateInit are now macros to allow version checking
        !           683: - prefix all global functions and types with z_ with -DZ_PREFIX
        !           684: - make falloc completely reentrant (inftrees.c)
        !           685: - fixed very unlikely race condition in ct_static_init
        !           686: - free in reverse order of allocation to help memory manager
        !           687: - use zlib-1.0/* instead of zlib/* inside the tar.gz
        !           688: - make zlib warning-free with "gcc -O3 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith
        !           689:   -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes"
        !           690: - allow gzread on concatenated .gz files
        !           691: - deflateEnd now returns Z_DATA_ERROR if it was premature
        !           692: - deflate is finally (?) fully deterministic (no matches beyond end of input)
        !           693: - Document Z_SYNC_FLUSH
        !           694: - add uninstall in Makefile
        !           695: - Check for __cpluplus in zlib.h
        !           696: - Better test in ct_align for partial flush
        !           697: - avoid harmless warnings for Borland C++
        !           698: - initialize hash_head in deflate.c
        !           699: - avoid warning on fdopen (gzio.c) for HP cc -Aa
        !           700: - include stdlib.h for STDC compilers
        !           701: - include errno.h for Cray
        !           702: - ignore error if ranlib doesn't exist
        !           703: - call ranlib twice for NeXTSTEP
        !           704: - use exec_prefix instead of prefix for libz.a
        !           705: - renamed ct_* as _tr_* to avoid conflict with applications
        !           706: - clear z->msg in inflateInit2 before any error return
        !           707: - initialize opaque in example.c, gzio.c, deflate.c and inflate.c
        !           708: - fixed typo in zconf.h (_GNUC__ => __GNUC__)
        !           709: - check for WIN32 in zconf.h and zutil.c (avoid farmalloc in 32-bit mode)
        !           710: - fix typo in Make_vms.com (f$trnlnm -> f$getsyi)
        !           711: - in fcalloc, normalize pointer if size > 65520 bytes
        !           712: - don't use special fcalloc for 32 bit Borland C++
        !           713: - use STDC instead of __GO32__ to avoid redeclaring exit, calloc, etc...
        !           714: - use Z_BINARY instead of BINARY
        !           715: - document that gzclose after gzdopen will close the file
        !           716: - allow "a" as mode in gzopen.
        !           717: - fix error checking in gzread
        !           718: - allow skipping .gz extra-field on pipes
        !           719: - added reference to Perl interface in README
        !           720: - put the crc table in FAR data (I dislike more and more the medium model :)
        !           721: - added get_crc_table
        !           722: - added a dimension to all arrays (Borland C can't count).
        !           723: - workaround Borland C bug in declaration of inflate_codes_new & inflate_fast
        !           724: - guard against multiple inclusion of *.h (for precompiled header on Mac)
        !           725: - Watcom C pretends to be Microsoft C small model even in 32 bit mode.
        !           726: - don't use unsized arrays to avoid silly warnings by Visual C++:
        !           727:      warning C4746: 'inflate_mask' : unsized array treated as  '__far'
        !           728:      (what's wrong with far data in far model?).
        !           729: - define enum out of inflate_blocks_state to allow compilation with C++
        !           730: 
        !           731: Changes in 0.95 (16 Aug 95)
        !           732: - fix MSDOS small and medium model (now easier to adapt to any compiler)
        !           733: - inlined send_bits
        !           734: - fix the final (:-) bug for deflate with flush (output was correct but
        !           735:   not completely flushed in rare occasions).
        !           736: - default window size is same for compression and decompression
        !           737:   (it's now sufficient to set MAX_WBITS in zconf.h).
        !           738: - voidp -> voidpf and voidnp -> voidp (for consistency with other
        !           739:   typedefs and because voidnp was not near in large model).
        !           740: 
        !           741: Changes in 0.94 (13 Aug 95)
        !           742: - support MSDOS medium model
        !           743: - fix deflate with flush (could sometimes generate bad output)
        !           744: - fix deflateReset (zlib header was incorrectly suppressed)
        !           745: - added support for VMS
        !           746: - allow a compression level in gzopen()
        !           747: - gzflush now calls fflush
        !           748: - For deflate with flush, flush even if no more input is provided.
        !           749: - rename libgz.a as libz.a
        !           750: - avoid complex expression in infcodes.c triggering Turbo C bug
        !           751: - work around a problem with gcc on Alpha (in INSERT_STRING)
        !           752: - don't use inline functions (problem with some gcc versions)
        !           753: - allow renaming of Byte, uInt, etc... with #define.
        !           754: - avoid warning about (unused) pointer before start of array in deflate.c
        !           755: - avoid various warnings in gzio.c, example.c, infblock.c, adler32.c, zutil.c
        !           756: - avoid reserved word 'new' in trees.c
        !           757: 
        !           758: Changes in 0.93 (25 June 95)
        !           759: - temporarily disable inline functions
        !           760: - make deflate deterministic
        !           761: - give enough lookahead for PARTIAL_FLUSH
        !           762: - Set binary mode for stdin/stdout in minigzip.c for OS/2
        !           763: - don't even use signed char in inflate (not portable enough)
        !           764: - fix inflate memory leak for segmented architectures
        !           765: 
        !           766: Changes in 0.92 (3 May 95)
        !           767: - don't assume that char is signed (problem on SGI)
        !           768: - Clear bit buffer when starting a stored block
        !           769: - no memcpy on Pyramid
        !           770: - suppressed inftest.c
        !           771: - optimized fill_window, put longest_match inline for gcc
        !           772: - optimized inflate on stored blocks.
        !           773: - untabify all sources to simplify patches
        !           774: 
        !           775: Changes in 0.91 (2 May 95)
        !           776: - Default MEM_LEVEL is 8 (not 9 for Unix) as documented in zlib.h
        !           777: - Document the memory requirements in zconf.h
        !           778: - added "make install"
        !           779: - fix sync search logic in inflateSync
        !           780: - deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH) now works even if output buffer too short
        !           781: - after inflateSync, don't scare people with just "lo world"
        !           782: - added support for DJGPP
        !           783: 
        !           784: Changes in 0.9 (1 May 95)
        !           785: - don't assume that zalloc clears the allocated memory (the TurboC bug
        !           786:   was Mark's bug after all :)
        !           787: - let again gzread copy uncompressed data unchanged (was working in 0.71)
        !           788: - deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH), inflateReset and inflateSync are now fully implemented
        !           789: - added a test of inflateSync in example.c
        !           790: - moved MAX_WBITS to zconf.h because users might want to change that.
        !           791: - document explicitly that zalloc(64K) on MSDOS must return a normalized
        !           792:   pointer (zero offset)
        !           793: - added Makefiles for Microsoft C, Turbo C, Borland C++
        !           794: - faster crc32()
        !           795: 
        !           796: Changes in 0.8 (29 April 95)
        !           797: - added fast inflate (inffast.c)
        !           798: - deflate(Z_FINISH) now returns Z_STREAM_END when done. Warning: this
        !           799:   is incompatible with previous versions of zlib which returned Z_OK.
        !           800: - work around a TurboC compiler bug (bad code for b << 0, see infutil.h)
        !           801:   (actually that was not a compiler bug, see 0.81 above)
        !           802: - gzread no longer reads one extra byte in certain cases
        !           803: - In gzio destroy(), don't reference a freed structure
        !           804: - avoid many warnings for MSDOS
        !           805: - avoid the ERROR symbol which is used by MS Windows
        !           806: 
        !           807: Changes in 0.71 (14 April 95)
        !           808: - Fixed more MSDOS compilation problems :( There is still a bug with
        !           809:   TurboC large model.
        !           810: 
        !           811: Changes in 0.7 (14 April 95)
        !           812: - Added full inflate support.
        !           813: - Simplified the crc32() interface. The pre- and post-conditioning
        !           814:   (one's complement) is now done inside crc32(). WARNING: this is
        !           815:   incompatible with previous versions; see zlib.h for the new usage.
        !           816: 
        !           817: Changes in 0.61 (12 April 95)
        !           818: - workaround for a bug in TurboC. example and minigzip now work on MSDOS.
        !           819: 
        !           820: Changes in 0.6 (11 April 95)
        !           821: - added minigzip.c
        !           822: - added gzdopen to reopen a file descriptor as gzFile
        !           823: - added transparent reading of non-gziped files in gzread.
        !           824: - fixed bug in gzread (don't read crc as data)
        !           825: - fixed bug in destroy (gzio.c) (don't return Z_STREAM_END for gzclose).
        !           826: - don't allocate big arrays in the stack (for MSDOS)
        !           827: - fix some MSDOS compilation problems
        !           828: 
        !           829: Changes in 0.5:
        !           830: - do real compression in deflate.c. Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is supported but
        !           831:   not yet Z_FULL_FLUSH.
        !           832: - support decompression but only in a single step (forced Z_FINISH)
        !           833: - added opaque object for zalloc and zfree.
        !           834: - added deflateReset and inflateReset
        !           835: - added a variable zlib_version for consistency checking.
        !           836: - renamed the 'filter' parameter of deflateInit2 as 'strategy'.
        !           837:   Added Z_FILTERED and Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY constants.
        !           838: 
        !           839: Changes in 0.4:
        !           840: - avoid "zip" everywhere, use zlib instead of ziplib.
        !           841: - suppress Z_BLOCK_FLUSH, interpret Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH as block flush
        !           842:   if compression method == 8.
        !           843: - added adler32 and crc32
        !           844: - renamed deflateOptions as deflateInit2, call one or the other but not both
        !           845: - added the method parameter for deflateInit2.
        !           846: - added inflateInit2
        !           847: - simplied considerably deflateInit and inflateInit by not supporting
        !           848:   user-provided history buffer. This is supported only in deflateInit2
        !           849:   and inflateInit2.
        !           850: 
        !           851: Changes in 0.3:
        !           852: - prefix all macro names with Z_
        !           853: - use Z_FINISH instead of deflateEnd to finish compression.
        !           854: - added Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY
        !           855: - added gzerror()

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