From a3e8a3d6c00072a14a681d3bd93908d452a91ab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: June McEnroe Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:40:50 -0500 Subject: Convert zlib.h comments to mdoc --- deflateBound.3 | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) create mode 100644 deflateBound.3 (limited to 'deflateBound.3') diff --git a/deflateBound.3 b/deflateBound.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..be97494c --- /dev/null +++ b/deflateBound.3 @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +.Dd January 15, 2017 +.Dt DEFLATEBOUND 3 +.Os +. +.Sh NAME +.Nm deflateBound +.Nd compressed size upper bound +. +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libz +. +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In zlib.h +.Ft uLong +.Fn deflateBound "z_streamp strm" "uLong sourceLen" +. +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn deflateBound +returns an upper bound +on the compressed size +after deflation of +.Fa sourceLen +bytes. +It must be called after +.Xr deflateInit 3 +or +.Xr deflateInit2 3 , +and after +.Xr deflateSetHeader 3 , +if used. +This would be used +to allocate an output buffer +for deflation in a single pass, +and so would be called before +.Xr deflate 3 . +If that first +.Fn deflate +call is provided the +.Fa sourceLen +input bytes, +an output buffer allocated +to the size returned by +.Fn deflateBound , +and the flush value +.Dv Z_FINISH , +then +.Fn deflate +is guaranteed to return +.Dv Z_STREAM_END . +Note that it is possible +for the compressed size +to be larger than the value returned by +.Fn deflateBound +if flush options other than +.Dv Z_FINISH +or +.Dv Z_NO_FLUSH +are used. +. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr compressBound 3 +. +.Sh HISTORY +This manual page was converted from +.In zlib.h +to mdoc format by +.An June McEnroe Aq Mt june@causal.agency . +. +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Jean-loup Gailly Aq Mt jloup@gzip.org +.An Mark Adler Aq Mt madler@alumni.caltech.edu -- cgit 1.4.1