bug#75924: gzip: add special eof handling for s390x

2025-02-17 Thread GNU gzip discussion and bug reports.
due to hardware limitations we cannot rely on the OESC error code before the hardware parsed the initial huffman tree. For this case we have to add a branch to the EOF handling. we return an errorcode 2 (invalid data) if we where still in the initial phase (bytes_out == 0). Otherwise we continue wi

bug#75924: maint: fix s390 buffer flushes

2025-02-17 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2025-02-17 02:38, Eduard Stefes wrote: I came up with an ugly hack: Thanks, it sounds much nicer than the hack I was thinking of, which was to redo the entire run in software

bug#75924: maint: fix s390 buffer flushes

2025-02-17 Thread GNU gzip discussion and bug reports.
Hi, On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 10:20 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2025-02-05 07:46, Eduard Stefes wrote: > > > We think that the only > > possibility for a problem here, is if faulty hardware updates > > param->cf > > incorrect. > > I'd rather not worry about hardware going bad, unless the hardware