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d0751937 1/*
2 * Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Marc Alexander Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
3 *
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35 */
36
37#ifndef LZF_H
38#define LZF_H
39
40/***********************************************************************
41**
42** lzf -- an extremely fast/free compression/decompression-method
43** http://liblzf.plan9.de/
44**
45** This algorithm is believed to be patent-free.
46**
47***********************************************************************/
48
49#define LZF_VERSION 0x0105 /* 1.5, API version */
50
51/*
52 * Compress in_len bytes stored at the memory block starting at
53 * in_data and write the result to out_data, up to a maximum length
54 * of out_len bytes.
55 *
56 * If the output buffer is not large enough or any error occurs return 0,
57 * otherwise return the number of bytes used, which might be considerably
58 * more than in_len (but less than 104% of the original size), so it
59 * makes sense to always use out_len == in_len - 1), to ensure _some_
60 * compression, and store the data uncompressed otherwise (with a flag, of
61 * course.
62 *
63 * lzf_compress might use different algorithms on different systems and
64 * even different runs, thus might result in different compressed strings
65 * depending on the phase of the moon or similar factors. However, all
66 * these strings are architecture-independent and will result in the
67 * original data when decompressed using lzf_decompress.
68 *
69 * The buffers must not be overlapping.
70 *
71 * If the option LZF_STATE_ARG is enabled, an extra argument must be
72 * supplied which is not reflected in this header file. Refer to lzfP.h
73 * and lzf_c.c.
74 *
75 */
76unsigned int
77lzf_compress (const void *const in_data, unsigned int in_len,
78 void *out_data, unsigned int out_len);
79
80/*
81 * Decompress data compressed with some version of the lzf_compress
82 * function and stored at location in_data and length in_len. The result
83 * will be stored at out_data up to a maximum of out_len characters.
84 *
85 * If the output buffer is not large enough to hold the decompressed
86 * data, a 0 is returned and errno is set to E2BIG. Otherwise the number
87 * of decompressed bytes (i.e. the original length of the data) is
88 * returned.
89 *
90 * If an error in the compressed data is detected, a zero is returned and
91 * errno is set to EINVAL.
92 *
93 * This function is very fast, about as fast as a copying loop.
94 */
95unsigned int
96lzf_decompress (const void *const in_data, unsigned int in_len,
97 void *out_data, unsigned int out_len);
98
99#endif
100