[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 12, 2004, at 11:45 PM, Kendy Kutzner wrote:

> On 2004-02-12T13:01:46-0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Checked in, with a change to use "tvb_memdup()" to make a copy of the
> > compressed data (so that, if not all the data is present, an exception
> > is thrown before anything is allocated).
> >
> > Is that copy required?
>
> On x86, IMHO it isn't. On other platforms, I'm not sure. Pointer
> alignment?

As far as I know, the buffer handed to "uncompress()" isn't required to 
be aligned - it's just a sequence of bytes.

> Byte ordering?

It's just a sequence of bytes, so that shouldn't matter - and copying 
it wouldn't help in any case.

> Are the tvb guaranteed to be contiguous?

"tvb_get_ptr()" returns a pointer to a contiguous chunk of data with 
the specified length.