- instead. If a compressed stream with a larger window size is given as
- input, inflate() will return with the error code Z_DATA_ERROR instead of
- trying to allocate a larger window.
-
- inflateInit2 returns Z_OK if success, Z_MEM_ERROR if there was not enough
- memory, Z_STREAM_ERROR if a parameter is invalid (such as a negative
- memLevel). msg is set to null if there is no error message. inflateInit2
- does not perform any decompression apart from reading the zlib header if
- present: this will be done by inflate(). (So next_in and avail_in may be
- modified, but next_out and avail_out are unchanged.)
+ instead. windowBits must be greater than or equal to the windowBits value
+ provided to deflateInit2() while compressing, or it must be equal to 15 if
+ deflateInit2() was not used. If a compressed stream with a larger window
+ size is given as input, inflate() will return with the error code
+ Z_DATA_ERROR instead of trying to allocate a larger window.
+
+ windowBits can also be -8..-15 for raw inflate. In this case, -windowBits
+ determines the window size. inflate() will then process raw deflate data,
+ not looking for a zlib or gzip header, not generating a check value, and not
+ looking for any check values for comparison at the end of the stream. This
+ is for use with other formats that use the deflate compressed data format
+ such as zip. Those formats provide their own check values. If a custom
+ format is developed using the raw deflate format for compressed data, it is
+ recommended that a check value such as an adler32 or a crc32 be applied to
+ the uncompressed data as is done in the zlib, gzip, and zip formats. For
+ most applications, the zlib format should be used as is. Note that comments
+ above on the use in deflateInit2() applies to the magnitude of windowBits.
+
+ windowBits can also be greater than 15 for optional gzip decoding. Add
+ 32 to windowBits to enable zlib and gzip decoding with automatic header
+ detection, or add 16 to decode only the gzip format (the zlib format will
+ return a Z_DATA_ERROR). If a gzip stream is being decoded, strm->adler is
+ a crc32 instead of an adler32.
+
+ inflateInit2 returns Z_OK if success, Z_MEM_ERROR if there was not enough
+ memory, Z_STREAM_ERROR if a parameter is invalid (such as a null strm). msg
+ is set to null if there is no error message. inflateInit2 does not perform
+ any decompression apart from reading the zlib header if present: this will
+ be done by inflate(). (So next_in and avail_in may be modified, but next_out
+ and avail_out are unchanged.)