Bug#353407: zlib1g-dev: Please document type of memory returned by gzerror()

2006-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:38:44PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: In particular, I don't know if I need to free() the returned pointer, and I don't know if the value is overwritten by successive failures (though I can't why it would be implemented in any way that cause this, I guess it is best

Bug#353407: zlib1g-dev: Please document type of memory returned by gzerror()

2006-02-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: zlib1g-dev Severity: wishlist Version: 1:1.2.3-9 gzerror() returns a string and sets an integer pointer parameter. But it isn't clear to me whether the returned string is mallocated, or a pointer to a string in a table of error messages, or anything else. In particular, I don't know if