upgrading zlib?

[Ranjit Mathew]

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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