Function deflateDynamic

src/lodepng.cpp:1671–1914

Deflate for a block of type "dynamic", that is, with freely, optimally, created huffman trees*/

/*Deflate for a block of type "dynamic", that is, with freely, optimally, created huffman trees*/
static unsigned deflateDynamic(ucvector* out, size_t* bp, Hash* hash,
                               const unsigned char* data, size_t datapos, size_t dataend,
                               const LodePNGCompressSettings* settings, int final)
{
  unsigned error = 0;

  /*
  A block is compressed as follows: The PNG data is lz77 encoded, resulting in
  literal bytes and length/distance pairs. This is then huffman compressed with
  two huffman trees. One huffman tree is used for the lit and len values ("ll"),
  another huffman tree is used for the dist values ("d"). These two trees are
  stored using their code lengths, and to compress even more these code lengths
  are also run-length encoded and huffman compressed. This gives a huffman tree
  of code lengths "cl". The code lenghts used to describe this third tree are
  the code length code lengths ("clcl").
  */

  /*The lz77 encoded data, represented with integers since there will also be length and distance codes in it*/
  uivector lz77_encoded;
  HuffmanTree tree_ll; /*tree for lit,len values*/
  HuffmanTree tree_d; /*tree for distance codes*/
  HuffmanTree tree_cl; /*tree for encoding the code lengths representing tree_ll and tree_d*/
  uivector frequencies_ll; /*frequency of lit,len codes*/
  uivector frequencies_d; /*frequency of dist codes*/
  uivector frequencies_cl; /*frequency of code length codes*/
  uivector bitlen_lld; /*lit,len,dist code lenghts (int bits), literally (without repeat codes).*/
  uivector bitlen_lld_e; /*bitlen_lld encoded with repeat codes (this is a rudemtary run length compression)*/
  /*bitlen_cl is the code length code lengths ("clcl"). The bit lengths of codes to represent tree_cl
  (these are written as is in the file, it would be crazy to compress these using yet another huffman
  tree that needs to be represented by yet another set of code lengths)*/
  uivector bitlen_cl;
  size_t datasize = dataend - datapos;

  /*
  Due to the huffman compression of huffman tree representations ("two levels"), there are some anologies:
  bitlen_lld is to tree_cl what data is to tree_ll and tree_d.
  bitlen_lld_e is to bitlen_lld what lz77_encoded is to data.
  bitlen_cl is to bitlen_lld_e what bitlen_lld is to lz77_encoded.
  */

  unsigned BFINAL = final;
  size_t numcodes_ll, numcodes_d, i;
  unsigned HLIT, HDIST, HCLEN;

  uivector_init(&lz77_encoded);
  HuffmanTree_init(&tree_ll);
  HuffmanTree_init(&tree_d);
  HuffmanTree_init(&tree_cl);
  uivector_init(&frequencies_ll);
  uivector_init(&frequencies_d);
  uivector_init(&frequencies_cl);
  uivector_init(&bitlen_lld);
  uivector_init(&bitlen_lld_e);
  uivector_init(&bitlen_cl);

  /*This while loop never loops due to a break at the end, it is here to
  allow breaking out of it to the cleanup phase on error conditions.*/
  while(!error)