[BusyBox] Re: [uClibc] LZMA (Patches for busybox and buildroot)

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Sat May 7 16:11:01 UTC 2005


On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:40:19PM +0800, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
> > 
> > > > I think I'll wait and see what Manuel's patch looks like...
> > >
> > > Erik and I both looked at the stuff I had done last night.  I had done
> > > pretty much a straight translation from c++ to c and had combined all
> > > the decompressor code into one file.  Still needs a bit of work.  The
> > > compressor still needs a lot of work.
> > >
> > > Manuel
> > 
> > Well, I'm interested in seeing it.  If you either post it to the list or send 
> > me a copy, I'll try to look over it this weekend...
> > 
> 
> Sounds to me it's like basing on the wrong code. The decompressor
> is already in very neat c code, what is there to still  translate ?
> 
> By the way, the 7zip LZMA sdk contains a standalone 
> compressor/decompressor in C++ ( which I found out later ) and 
> also standalone C code decompressor. It appears to be that the 
> 7zip LZMA sdk is more defacto that anything else. 

I started looking at this 6+ months ago and had put it aside.  At the
time, there wasn't a C code decompressor.  The library I started from
was basicly an extract of the c++ standalone compressor/decompressor
from the 7zip LZMA sdk as I recall.  I remember comparing them anyway.

Manuel



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