From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA18569; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:08:05 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18296 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:08:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9HB847f019636 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:08:04 +0200 Received: from warp (chateaudeau-4-82-225-176-25.fbx.proxad.net [82.225.176.25]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id B770A1DC80A; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:07:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <008a01c4b439$ddfdcd70$0100a8c0@warp> From: "Nicolas Cannasse" To: "malc" , References: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cryptokit.Zlib uncompressing fails to terminate (fwd) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:10:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41725294.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; cannasse:01 warplayer:01 caml-list:01 zlib:01 zlib:01 extlib:01 slower:01 cannasse:01 ocaml:01 nicolas:01 nicolas:01 cryptokit:02 contact:96 module:03 algorithm:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Hello, > > I have been unable to contact Xavier Leroy directly, so im reposting this > message here. Few more words about the stream that takes uncompress into > an endless loop, it is %100 valid zlib compressed data with 2 additional > (gzip's crc and length) words at the end. While waiting the problem is fixed, you might use ExtLib "Unzip" module that provides a pure ocaml "inflate" algorithm implementation ( aka zlib decompression ). Speed is "only" around 2 to 3 times slower than zlib. Nicolas Cannasse ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners