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Re: upgrading zlib?
- From: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GCJ mailing list <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Mark Mitchell <mitchell at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:25:10 +0530
- Subject: Re: upgrading zlib?
- References: <m3mzz6gvfd.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <415DDB50.3040701@codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> (My opinion, FWIW, would be that you should do this import if (and
> pretty much only if) you can document that bugs are fixed or performance
> is improved; if not, then you're probably taking on a risk without much
> end-user upside.)
Note that there is at least one buffer overflow
error in zlib 1.1.4:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/312869
I got it from PR15697:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15697
The performance improvements are documented on
the zlib home page and elsewhere:
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
Ranjit.
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