From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 21:35:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Really *do* nothing in while loop
Message-ID: <7vu0ld4d0k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0505081713070.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

>>>>> "DB" == Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

DB> On Sun, 8 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
MT> As I already said, deflate() in this case does only ONE iteration.
MT> stream.avail_in is NOT changed in the loop (except of the deflate()
MT> itself, where it will be set to 0 - provided out buffer have enouth
MT> room)....
>> 
>> Just a stupid question, but what happens when we do not have
>> enough room in the buffer?

DB> We must have enough room; we sized the buffer with deflateBound to fit the
DB> worst case.

Thanks for the explanation.  Then do we still need to express it
as a while loop?