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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/lz4.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -492,15 +492,19 @@ LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_compress_fast_continue() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_co LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_decompress_fast() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_uncompress (const char* source, char* dest, int outputSize); LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_decompress_safe() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_uncompress_unknownOutputSize (const char* source, char* dest, int isize, int maxOutputSize); -/* Broken, obsolete streaming functions; do not use! +/* Obsolete streaming functions; degraded functionality; do not use! * - * These functions depended on data that is no longer tracked in the state. They - * are therefore broken--they don't retain any history across compressions. + * In order to perform streaming compression, these functions depended on data + * that is no longer tracked in the state. They have been preserved as well as + * possible: using them will still produce a correct output. However, they don't + * actually retain any history between compression calls. The compression ratio + * achieved will therefore be no better than compressing each chunk + * independently. */ -LZ4_DEPRECATED("Broken!!! Use LZ4_createStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API void* LZ4_create (char* inputBuffer); +LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_createStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API void* LZ4_create (char* inputBuffer); LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_createStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_sizeofStreamState(void); -LZ4_DEPRECATED("Broken!!! Use LZ4_resetStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_resetStreamState(void* state, char* inputBuffer); -LZ4_DEPRECATED("Broken!!! Use LZ4_saveDict() instead") LZ4LIB_API char* LZ4_slideInputBuffer (void* state); +LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_resetStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_resetStreamState(void* state, char* inputBuffer); +LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_saveDict() instead") LZ4LIB_API char* LZ4_slideInputBuffer (void* state); /* Obsolete streaming decoding functions */ LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_decompress_safe_usingDict() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_decompress_safe_withPrefix64k (const char* src, char* dst, int compressedSize, int maxDstSize); |