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author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-11-24 13:19:28 +0200 |
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committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-11-24 13:19:28 +0200 |
commit | 6ae0a26583cbcaba47a9beed0ad41ff64d264182 (patch) | |
tree | 6459f05483fbe532ce40ef829736639bb63c4979 /linux/lib/xz | |
parent | 1e44a8999bd27987332e15b436b1cc2b2b9c01ef (diff) | |
download | xz-embedded-6ae0a26583cbcaba47a9beed0ad41ff64d264182.tar.gz |
Add a comment about using uint32_t as vli_type.
Diffstat (limited to 'linux/lib/xz')
-rw-r--r-- | linux/lib/xz/xz_stream.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/linux/lib/xz/xz_stream.h b/linux/lib/xz/xz_stream.h index 2ffaa34..66cb5a7 100644 --- a/linux/lib/xz/xz_stream.h +++ b/linux/lib/xz/xz_stream.h @@ -32,8 +32,13 @@ #define FOOTER_MAGIC_SIZE 2 /* - * Variable-length integer can hold a 63-bit unsigned integer, or a special - * value to indicate that the value is unknown. + * Variable-length integer can hold a 63-bit unsigned integer or a special + * value indicating that the value is unknown. + * + * Experimental: vli_type can be defined to uint32_t to save a few bytes + * in code size (no effect on speed). Doing so limits the uncompressed and + * compressed size of the file to less than 256 MiB and may also weaken + * error detection slightly. */ typedef uint64_t vli_type; |