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
CRC-32 instead of an Adler-32. Unlike the gunzip utility and gzread() (see
- below), inflate() will not automatically decode concatenated gzip streams.
- inflate() will return Z_STREAM_END at the end of the gzip stream. The state
- would need to be reset to continue decoding a subsequent gzip stream.
+ below), inflate() will *not* automatically decode concatenated gzip members.
+ inflate() will return Z_STREAM_END at the end of the gzip member. The state
+ would need to be reset to continue decoding a subsequent gzip member. This
+ *must* be done if there is more data after a gzip member, in order for the
+ decompression to be compliant with the gzip standard (RFC 1952).
inflateInit2 returns Z_OK if success, Z_MEM_ERROR if there was not enough
memory, Z_VERSION_ERROR if the zlib library version is incompatible with the