Re: [Lzip-bug] Version 0.1 of plzip released

[Tino Lange]

Hi Antonio, hi Laszlo,

I get the following warnings on 64bit:

> g++  -Wall -W -O2 -c -o arg_parser.o arg_parser.cc
> g++  -Wall -W -O2 -c -o lacos_rbtree.o lacos_rbtree.cc
> g++  -Wall -W -O2 -c -o plzip.o plzip.cc
> plzip.cc: In function ‘void plzip(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, 
> int, int, int)’:
> plzip.cc:601: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of 
> data type
> plzip.cc:607: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of 
> data type
> plzip.cc:614: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data 
> type
> g++  -Wall -W -O2 -DPROGVERSION=\"0.1\" -c -o main.o main.cc
> main.cc: In function ‘int main(int, const char**)’:
> main.cc:1101: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of 
> data type

Are they serious?

Cheers,

Tino

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Antonio Diaz Diaz schrieb:

> Version 0.1 of plzip is ready for testing here
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-0.1.tar.gz
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-0.1.tar.lz
> 
> The md5sums are:
> 8e736e5d24ca40046a2c52a5b4bebb62  plzip-0.1.tar.gz
> 4460dcea11e4d146934b41a955f00635  plzip-0.1.tar.lz
> 
> Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
> 
> Plzip is a parallel version of the lzip data compressor. The files
> produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Plzip is
> intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on
> multiprocessor machines.
> 
> The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html.
> 
> Changes in this version:
> 
>   * This is the initial release. The compression code is based on
> llzip-0.03, written by Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>. Currently
> only compression is performed in parallel. Parallel decompression is
> planned to be implemented soon.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Antonio Diaz, plzip maintainer.