Re: [png-mng-implement] Convenience functions

[Olaf v. d. S. <ml...@vd...>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:56 PM, John Bowler
<joh...@gm...> wrote:
> I don’t think it’s suitable for libpng because of the ‘malloc’ in the
> middle, but it’s certainly suitable for copy and paste – after all, it isn’t

What's wrong with the malloc?

> libpng specific, it just uses ANSI-C.  The problems are OS specific because
> of the potential difference of (long int) from ftell() and (size_t) to
> malloc(); that’s not a libpng issue.  The fread part can be changed to use a
> list of buffers as required to deal with this.

Hmm, it might still be less optimal due to extra memory copies.

-- 
Olaf