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authorJune McEnroe <june@causal.agency>2018-11-11 15:50:35 -0500
committerJune McEnroe <june@causal.agency>2018-11-11 15:50:35 -0500
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+.Dd November 8, 2018
+.Dt COMPRESSBOUND 3
+.Os
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm compressBound
+.Nd compressed size upper bound
+.
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libz
+.
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In zlib.h
+.Ft uLong
+.Fn compressBound "uLong sourceLen"
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Fn compressBound
+returns an upper bound on the compressed size after
+.Xr compress 3
+or
+.Xr compress2 3
+on
+.Fa sourceLen
+bytes.
+It would be used before a
+.Xr compress 3
+or
+.Xr compress2 3
+call to allocate the destination buffer.
+.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr compress 3