/* * simple_buffer.c * Copyright : Kyle Harper * License : Follows same licensing as the lz4.c/lz4.h program at any given time. Currently, BSD 2. * Description: Example program to demonstrate the basic usage of the compress/decompress functions within lz4.c/lz4.h. * The functions you'll likely want are LZ4_compress_default and LZ4_decompress_safe. Both of these are documented in * the lz4.h header file; I recommend reading them. */ /* Includes, for Power! */ #include "lz4.h" // This is all that is required to expose the prototypes for basic compression and decompression. #include <stdio.h> // For printf() #include <string.h> // For memcmp() #include <stdlib.h> // For exit() /* * Easy show-error-and-bail function. */ void run_screaming(const char *message, const int code) { printf("%s\n", message); exit(code); return; } /* * main */ int main(void) { /* Introduction */ // Below we will have a Compression and Decompression section to demonstrate. There are a few important notes before we start: // 1) The return codes of LZ4_ functions are important. Read lz4.h if you're unsure what a given code means. // 2) LZ4 uses char* pointers in all LZ4_ functions. This is baked into the API and probably not going to change. If your // program uses pointers that are unsigned char*, void*, or otherwise different you may need to do some casting or set the // right -W compiler flags to ignore those warnings (e.g.: -Wno-pointer-sign). /* Compression */ // We'll store some text into a variable pointed to by *src to be compressed later. const char *src = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit."; // The compression function needs to know how many bytes of exist. Since we're using a string, we can use strlen() + 1 (for \0). const size_t src_size = strlen(src) + 1; // LZ4 provides a function that will tell you the maximum size of compressed output based on input data via LZ4_compressBound(). const size_t max_dst_size = LZ4_compressBound(src_size); // We will use that size for our destination boundary when allocating space. char *compressed_data = malloc(max_dst_size); if (compressed_data == NULL) run_screaming("Failed to allocate memory for *compressed_data.", 1); // That's all the information and preparation LZ4 needs to compress *src into *compressed_data. Invoke LZ4_compress_default now // with our size values and pointers to our memory locations. Save the return value for error checking. int return_value = 0; return_value = LZ4_compress_default(src, compressed_data, src_size, max_dst_size); // Check return_value to determine what happened. if (return_value < 0) run_screaming("A negative result from LZ4_compress_default indicates a failure trying to compress the data. See exit code (echo $?) for value returned.", return_value); if (return_value == 0) run_screaming("A result of 0 means compression worked, but was stopped because the destination buffer couldn't hold all the information.", 1); if (return_value > 0) printf("We successfully compressed some data!\n"); // Not only does a positive return_value mean success, the value returned == the number of bytes required. You can use this to // realloc() *compress_data to free up memory, if desired. We'll do so just to demonstrate the concept. const size_t compressed_data_size = return_value; compressed_data = (char *)realloc(compressed_data, compressed_data_size); if (compressed_data == NULL) run_screaming("Failed to re-alloc memory for compressed_data. Sad :(", 1); /* Decompression */ // Now that we've successfully compressed the information from *src to *compressed_data, let's do the opposite! We'll create a // *new_src location of size src_size since we know that value. char *new_src = malloc(src_size); if (new_src == NULL) run_screaming("Failed to allocate memory for *new_src.", 1); // The LZ4_decompress_safe function needs to know where the compressed data is, how many bytes long it is, where the new_src // memory location is, and how large the new_src (uncompressed) output will be. Again, save the return_value. return_value = LZ4_decompress_safe(compressed_data, new_src, compressed_data_size, src_size); if (return_value < 0) run_screaming("A negative result from LZ4_decompress_fast indicates a failure trying to decompress the data. See exit code (echo $?) for value returned.", return_value); if (return_value == 0) run_screaming("I'm not sure this function can ever return 0. Documentation in lz4.h doesn't indicate so.", 1); if (return_value > 0) printf("We successfully decompressed some data!\n"); // Not only does a positive return value mean success, the value returned == the number of bytes read from the compressed_data // stream. I'm not sure there's ever a time you'll need to know this in most cases... /* Validation */ // We should be able to compare our original *src with our *new_src and be byte-for-byte identical. if (memcmp(src, new_src, src_size) != 0) run_screaming("Validation failed. *src and *new_src are not identical.", 1); printf("Validation done. The string we ended up with is:\n%s\n", new_src); return 0; }