Function UncompressString

src/StringCompression.cpp:36–50

Uncompresses a_Data into a_Decompressed; returns Z_XXX error constants same as zlib's uncompress()

/// Uncompresses a_Data into a_Decompressed; returns Z_XXX error constants same as zlib's uncompress()
int UncompressString(const char * a_Data, int a_Length, AString & a_Uncompressed, int a_UncompressedSize)
{
	// HACK: We're assuming that AString returns its internal buffer in its data() call and we're overwriting that buffer!
	// It saves us one allocation and one memcpy of the entire compressed data
	// It may not work on some STL implementations! (Confirmed working on MSVC 2008 & 2010)
	a_Uncompressed.resize(a_UncompressedSize);
	uLongf UncompressedSize = (uLongf)a_UncompressedSize;  // On some architectures the uLongf is different in size to int, that may be the cause of the -5 error
	int errorcode = uncompress((Bytef*)a_Uncompressed.data(), &UncompressedSize, (const Bytef*)a_Data, a_Length);
	if (errorcode != Z_OK)
	{
		return errorcode;
	}
	a_Uncompressed.resize(UncompressedSize);
	return Z_OK;
}