Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:08:57 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it |
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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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