Re: [Siglinux] zlib weirdness

2002-04-25 Thread Robert Giles
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Tom Brown wrote: > I don't know if this useful, but I like to pipe strange characters > into hexdump Thanks for the info, turns out I wasn't handling the string terminator correctly / off-by-one error... ps :) Paul Sack correctly diagnosed the problem (a co-worker at AR

Re: [Siglinux] zlib weirdness

2002-04-25 Thread Tom Brown
I don't know if this useful, but I like to pipe strange characters into hexdump echo "This is a test" | ./compress | hexdump -c Printf and gdb are powerful debugging tools. On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:17:42PM -0500, Robert Giles wrote: > Howdy folks - I'm writing a program to compress and uncomp

[Siglinux] zlib weirdness

2002-04-23 Thread Robert Giles
Howdy folks - I'm writing a program to compress and uncompress a string and keep getting weird results... for a string of length 0-6, uncompress stores garbage at the end of the string. Length = 7, output is OK. Length 8,9,10,11 - output is corrupted. Length = 12, output is OK. Program takes i