bug#72588: performance bug regarding CRC32 algorithm implementation

2024-08-11 Thread GNU gzip discussion and bug reports.
During my research regarding faster gzip implementations I found https://medium.com/@techhara/speeding-up-system-gzip-by-60-75edbc8ac0e8 Is the article correct and the implementation should be updated, or is the benchmark flawed?

bug#72587: Getting compilation error

2024-08-11 Thread GNU gzip discussion and bug reports.
I'm trying to cross-compile on Ubuntu for Windows hosts using ./configure --quiet --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 But my build fails: dup2.c: In function 'ms_windows_dup2': dup2.c:80:11: error: cast from function call of type 'intptr_t' {aka 'long long int'} to non-matching type 'void *' [-Werror=bad-f