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Hello,

I've been wondering, if there is a library routine for in memory data
compression somewhere out there. This routine, possibly based on the
algorithms in gzip, would allow to compress the data in any memory
region in something like the following way:

void  compress  (const void* src, int src_size, void* dest, int* dest_size);
void  uncompress(const void* src, int src_size, void* dest, int* dest_size);

A call to compress() would take <src_size> bytes starting at address
<src> and compress them. It would allocate the necessary memory for the
compressed data to <dest> and return the number of allocated bytes in
<dest_size>.

A call to uncompress() would take <src_size> bytes starting at address
<src> and uncompress them. It would allocate the necessary memory for
the uncompressed data to <dest> and return the number of allocated
bytes in <dest_size>.

I would be strongly interested in these two or similar library routines.

Regards, 
Martin.

martinb@iqe.phys.ethz.ch