Re: C++ Deflate (zlib-like) library

From: Jeff Garland (azswdude_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-03-11 00:03:35

fyi w.r.t streaming there is already a proposal in this area -- which I
thought got put into the library fundamentals TS, but not seeing that it
happened now.  There is a github for it, but I think Peter got tired of
championing this and would like others to pick it up.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p0448r2.pdf

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:50 AM Vinnie Falco via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:31 AM Domen Vrankar <domen.vrankar_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > You compress/decompress in chunks so all you need is a const std::span
> for input and std::span for output and call decompress on a for loop.
>
> You need to know:
>
>     1. how much input was consumed
>     2. how much output was produced
>
> > ...input iterator pair/range for input/output...
> > ...std::istream_iterator...
> > ...boost.spirit x3 parser...
> > ...read->decompress->parse/process
> > ...
> > Whit iterators/ranges described above you wouldn't
> > need to return std::size_t so return can be used for
> > error codes instead.
>
> It isn't clear what these things mean without seeing a function
> signature or class declaration.
>
> Thanks
>
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