/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ /* Various simple compression/decompression functions. */ #ifndef mozilla_Compression_h_ #define mozilla_Compression_h_ #include "mozilla/Types.h" #include "mozilla/Assertions.h" namespace mozilla { namespace Compression { /** * LZ4 is a very fast byte-wise compression algorithm. * * Compared to Google's Snappy it is faster to compress and decompress and * generally produces output of about the same size. * * Compared to zlib it compresses at about 10x the speed, decompresses at about * 4x the speed and produces output of about 1.5x the size. * */ class LZ4 { public: /** * Compresses 'inputSize' bytes from 'source' into 'dest'. * Destination buffer must be already allocated, * and must be sized to handle worst cases situations (input data not compressible) * Worst case size evaluation is provided by function maxCompressedSize() * * @param inputSize is the input size. Max supported value is ~1.9GB * @param return the number of bytes written in buffer dest */ static MFBT_API size_t compress(const char* source, size_t inputSize, char* dest); /** * Compress 'inputSize' bytes from 'source' into an output buffer * 'dest' of maximum size 'maxOutputSize'. If it cannot achieve it, * compression will stop, and result of the function will be zero, * 'dest' will still be written to, but since the number of input * bytes consumed is not returned the result is not usable. * * This function never writes outside of provided output buffer. * * @param inputSize is the input size. Max supported value is ~1.9GB * @param maxOutputSize is the size of the destination buffer (which must be already allocated) * @return the number of bytes written in buffer 'dest' or 0 if the compression fails */ static MFBT_API size_t compressLimitedOutput(const char* source, size_t inputSize, char* dest, size_t maxOutputSize); /** * If the source stream is malformed, the function will stop decoding * and return a negative result, indicating the byte position of the * faulty instruction * * This function never writes outside of provided buffers, and never * modifies input buffer. * * note : destination buffer must be already allocated. * its size must be a minimum of 'outputSize' bytes. * @param outputSize is the output size, therefore the original size * @return the number of bytes read in the source buffer */ static MFBT_API bool decompress(const char* source, char* dest, size_t outputSize); /** * If the source stream is malformed, the function will stop decoding * and return false. * * This function never writes beyond dest + maxOutputSize, and is * therefore protected against malicious data packets. * * note : Destination buffer must be already allocated. * This version is slightly slower than the decompress * without the maxOutputSize * * @param inputSize is the length of the input compressed data * @param maxOutputSize is the size of the destination buffer (which must be already allocated) * @param outputSize the actual number of bytes decoded in the destination buffer (necessarily <= maxOutputSize) */ static MFBT_API bool decompress(const char* source, size_t inputSize, char* dest, size_t maxOutputSize, size_t *outputSize); /* Provides the maximum size that LZ4 may output in a "worst case" scenario (input data not compressible) primarily useful for memory allocation of output buffer. note : this function is limited by "int" range (2^31-1) @param inputSize is the input size. Max supported value is ~1.9GB @return maximum output size in a "worst case" scenario */ static inline size_t maxCompressedSize(size_t inputSize) { size_t max = ((inputSize) + ((inputSize)/255) + 16); MOZ_ASSERT(max > inputSize); return max; } }; } /* namespace Compression */ } /* namespace mozilla */ #endif /* mozilla_Compression_h_ */