1 /* blast.h -- interface for blast.c
2 Copyright (C) 2003 Mark Adler
3 version 1.1, 16 Feb 2003
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21 Mark Adler madler@alumni.caltech.edu
26 * blast() decompresses the PKWare Data Compression Library (DCL) compressed
27 * format. It provides the same functionality as the explode() function in
28 * that library. (Note: PKWare overused the "implode" verb, and the format
29 * used by their library implode() function is completely different and
30 * incompatible with the implode compression method supported by PKZIP.)
34 typedef unsigned (*blast_in
)(void *how
, unsigned char **buf
);
35 typedef int (*blast_out
)(void *how
, unsigned char *buf
, unsigned len
);
36 /* Definitions for input/output functions passed to blast(). See below for
37 * what the provided functions need to do.
41 int blast(blast_in infun
, void *inhow
, blast_out outfun
, void *outhow
);
42 /* Decompress input to output using the provided infun() and outfun() calls.
43 * On success, the return value of blast() is zero. If there is an error in
44 * the source data, i.e. it is not in the proper format, then a negative value
45 * is returned. If there is not enough input available or there is not enough
46 * output space, then a positive error is returned.
48 * The input function is invoked: len = infun(how, &buf), where buf is set by
49 * infun() to point to the input buffer, and infun() returns the number of
50 * available bytes there. If infun() returns zero, then blast() returns with
51 * an input error. (blast() only asks for input if it needs it.) inhow is for
52 * use by the application to pass an input descriptor to infun(), if desired.
54 * The output function is invoked: err = outfun(how, buf, len), where the bytes
55 * to be written are buf[0..len-1]. If err is not zero, then blast() returns
56 * with an output error. outfun() is always called with len <= 4096. outhow
57 * is for use by the application to pass an output descriptor to outfun(), if
60 * The return codes are:
62 * 2: ran out of input before completing decompression
63 * 1: output error before completing decompression
64 * 0: successful decompression
65 * -1: literal flag not zero or one
66 * -2: dictionary size not in 4..6
67 * -3: distance is too far back
69 * At the bottom of blast.c is an example program that uses blast() that can be
70 * compiled to produce a command-line decompression filter by defining TEST.