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John Bowler d332c67da7 [libpng16] Start-up code size improvements, error handler flexibility.
These changes alter how the tricky allocation of the initial png_struct and
png_info structures are handled. png_info is now handled in pretty much the
same way as everything else, except that the allocations handle NULL return
silently.  png_struct is changed in a similar way on allocation and on
deallocation a 'safety' error handler is put in place (which should never
be required).  The error handler itself is changed to permit mismatches
in the application and libpng error buffer size; however, this means a
silent change to the API to return the jmp_buf if the size doesn't match
the size from the libpng compilation; libpng now allocates the memory and
this may fail.  Overall these changes result in slight code size
reductions; however, this is a reduction in code that is always executed
so is particularly valuable.  Overall on a 64-bit system the libpng DLL
decreases in code size by 1733 bytes.  pngerror.o increases in size by
about 465 bytes because of the new functionality.
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Libpng 1.6.0beta03 - December 21, 2011
This is not intended to be a public release. It will be replaced
within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.
Files available for download:
Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script
1.6.0beta03.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
1.6.0beta03.tar.gz
1.6.0beta03.tar.bz2
Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script
lp160b03.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
lp160b03.zip
Other information:
1.6.0beta03-README.txt
1.6.0beta03-LICENSE.txt
Changes since the last public release (1.5.7):
Version 1.6.0beta01 [December 15, 2011]
Removed machine-generated configure files from the GIT repository (they will
continue to appear in the tarball distributions).
Restored the new 'simplified' API, which was deleted from libpng-1.5.7.
Added example programs for the new 'simplified' API.
Added ANSI-C (C90) headers and require them, and take advantage of the
change. Also fixed some of the projects/* and contrib/* files that needed
updates for libpng16 and the move of pngvalid.c.
With this change the required ANSI-C header files are assumed to exist: the
implementation must provide float.h, limits.h, stdarg.h and stddef.h and
libpng relies on limits.h and stddef.h existing and behaving as defined
(the other two required headers aren't used). Non-ANSI systems that don't
have stddef.h or limits.h will have to provide an appropriate fake
containing the relevant types and #defines.
The use of FAR/far has been eliminated and the definition of png_alloc_size_t
is now controlled by a flag so that 'small size_t' systems can select it
if necessary. Libpng 1.6 may not currently work on such systems -- it
seems likely that it will ask 'malloc' for more than 65535 bytes with any
image that has a sufficiently large row size (rather than simply failing
to read such images).
New tools directory containing tools used to generate libpng code.
Fixed race conditions in parallel make builds. With higher degrees of
parallelism during 'make' the use of the same temporary file names such
as 'dfn*' can result in a race where a temporary file from one arm of the
build is deleted or overwritten in another arm. This changes the
temporary files for suffix rules to always use $* and ensures that the
non-suffix rules use unique file names.
Version 1.6.0beta02 [December 21, 2011]
Correct configure builds where build and source directories are separate.
The include path of 'config.h' was erroneously made relative in pngvalid.c
in libpng 1.5.7.
Version 1.6.0beta03 [December 21, 2011]
Start-up code size improvements, error handler flexibility. These changes
alter how the tricky allocation of the initial png_struct and png_info
structures are handled. png_info is now handled in pretty much the same
way as everything else, except that the allocations handle NULL return
silently. png_struct is changed in a similar way on allocation and on
deallocation a 'safety' error handler is put in place (which should never
be required). The error handler itself is changed to permit mismatches
in the application and libpng error buffer size; however, this means a
silent change to the API to return the jmp_buf if the size doesn't match
the size from the libpng compilation; libpng now allocates the memory and
this may fail. Overall these changes result in slight code size
reductions; however, this is a reduction in code that is always executed
so is particularly valuable. Overall on a 64-bit system the libpng DLL
decreases in code size by 1733 bytes. pngerror.o increases in size by
about 465 bytes because of the new functionality.
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