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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/lz4.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@ LZ4_compress_default() : or 0 if compression fails LZ4_decompress_safe() : - compressedSize : is obviously the source size - maxDecompressedSize : is the size of the destination buffer, which must be already allocated. - return : the number of bytes decompressed into the destination buffer (necessarily <= maxDecompressedSize) - If the destination buffer is not large enough, decoding will stop and output an error code (<0). + compressedSize : is the precise full size of the compressed block. + maxDecompressedSize : is the size of destination buffer, which must be already allocated. + return : the number of bytes decompressed into destination buffer (necessarily <= maxDecompressedSize) + If destination buffer is not large enough, decoding will stop and output an error code (<0). If the source stream is detected malformed, the function will stop decoding and return a negative result. This function is protected against buffer overflow exploits, including malicious data packets. It never writes outside output buffer, nor reads outside input buffer. |