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Remove dummy structure declarations for old buggy compilers.

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While woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth and before Atlantis
sunk into the ocean, there were C compilers that could not handle
forward structure references, e.g. "struct name;". zlib dutifully
provided a work-around for such compilers. That work-around is no
longer needed, and, per the recommendation of a security audit of
the zlib code by Trail of Bits and TrustInSoft, in support of the
Mozilla Foundation, should be removed since what a compiler will
do with this is technically undefined. From the report: "there is
no telling what interactions the bug could have in the future with
link-time optimizations and type-based alias analyses, both
features that are present (but not default) in clang."
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Mark Adler
2016-09-21 20:07:37 -07:00
parent 33a7aff45d
commit 3fb251b363
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@@ -224,11 +224,6 @@
# define z_const
#endif
/* Some Mac compilers merge all .h files incorrectly: */
#if defined(__MWERKS__)||defined(applec)||defined(THINK_C)||defined(__SC__)
# define NO_DUMMY_DECL
#endif
/* Maximum value for memLevel in deflateInit2 */
#ifndef MAX_MEM_LEVEL
# ifdef MAXSEG_64K