Hello Jacob, sorry for the delay, but I am lately receiving more mails
than I can reply.
Jacob Rief wrote:
is there any way to reset a LZ_Decoder?
Currently not.
Assume the buffers and flags of an LZ_Decoder are filled with some
kind of data, but for some reason (for instance a stream corruption)
you want forward up to the next member and start decompression from
there. Thus instead of destroying and recreating a LZ_Decoder, a
useful function would be to somehow clear the buffers and reset the
internal flags to a state equivalent to a decoder just after creation,
say LZ_decompress_reset(struct LZ_Decoder* decoder);
Resetting the internal flags to a state equivalent to a decoder just
after creation can't work. Suppose the next header has not been yet fed
to LZ_decompress_write. You'll have to switch to a "search" state, then
write data until the header is found.
Certainly this case deserves its own explicit function, in addition to
any LZ_decompress_reset that we may find useful to implement, but I'm
afraid I can write it until next year.
Regards,
Antonio.
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