[jhc] trouble with jhc 0.7.1

[David Roundy]

My C zlib is version 1.2.3.3, from the debian package for lenny.
You're right that that shouldn't cause any trouble.  I don't expect
that today I'll have time to track down the failure...  I wonder if it
could be related to the version of binary used? Since it looks like
perhaps the sort of error zlib will give if you give it random data,
as might happen if the format of the file as a whole changed.

My binary is 0.4.1, the package shipped with debian lenny.

David

1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:47 AM, John Meacham<john at repetae.net> wrote:
> No, zlib is used to compress individual parts of the file independently.
> that way I can load certain bits of data without having to parse through
> everything before it. (like it can skip loading type checking
> information for modules that arn't directly imported)
>
> That is really strange. I am using the same haskell version of zlib as
> you, I thought the gz format it compress/decompressed to was pretty
> standard. What version of the C zlib library do you have? I have
> version 1.2.3 on my machine I used to build the hl file.