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author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 1998-12-31 21:14:23 (GMT) |
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committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 1998-12-31 21:14:23 (GMT) |
commit | f07c328c072e62ada8671ec30392572add22d904 (patch) | |
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Document the optional mode argument (Z_FLUSH, Z_SYNC_FLUSH, etc.)
to the flush() method of compressor objects.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex index 9dbb16b..aaf4684 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex @@ -87,11 +87,18 @@ concatenated to the output produced by any preceding calls to the for later processing. \end{methoddesc} -\begin{methoddesc}[Compress]{flush}{} -All pending input is processed, and an string containing the remaining -compressed output is returned. After calling \method{flush()}, the +\begin{methoddesc}[Compress]{flush}{\optional{mode}} +All pending input is processed, and a string containing the remaining +compressed output is returned. \var{mode} can be selected from the +constants \constant{Z_SYNC_FLUSH}, \constant{Z_FULL_FLUSH}, or +\constant{Z_FINISH}, defaulting to \constant{Z_FINISH}. \constant{Z_SYNC_FLUSH} and +\constant{Z_FULL_FLUSH} allow compressing further strings of data and +are used to allow partial error recovery on decompression, while +\constant{Z_FINISH} finishes the compressed stream and +prevents compressing any more data. After calling +\method{flush()} with \var{mode} set to \constant{Z_FINISH}, the \method{compress()} method cannot be called again; the only realistic -action is to delete the object. +action is to delete the object. \end{methoddesc} Decompression objects support the following methods: |