DESCRIPTION
zlib implements the deflate compression algorithm
LICENSE
See LICENSE file
ORIGIN
The zlib sources were obtained from Chromium's zlib fork.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/third_party/zlib
commit 14dd4c4455602c9b71a1a89b5cafd1f4030d2e3f
Author: Adenilson Cavalcanti <cavalcantii@chromium.org>
Date: Tue Apr 11 17:40:40 2023 +0000
The source code for puff was obtained from zlib itself:
Origin: git@github.com:madler/zlib.git
Commit: 03614c56ad299f9b238c75aa1e66f0c08fc4fc8b
Author: Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu>
Date: Sun Oct 30 08:36:13 2016 -0700
LOCAL CHANGES
- Use X86_HAVE() for runtime dispatching
- Changed Trace(stderr) calls to use kprintf()
- Made the type signature of crc32_z() less obnoxious
- Fix a Chromium Zlib regression where malloc() failures inside
deflateInit2() will result in a segmentation fault
- Provide THIRD_PARTY_ZLIB_GZ as a separate package, because it
can't work without malloc/stdio/etc. but the rest of zlib can