ddaletski / huffman

Libhuffman - huffman compression/decompression library

Features

• Fast
• Fixed-size result (5 bytes) for a special case where the input buffer is full of some constant byte

API

1. uchar* huffman_compress (uchar *input, uint insize, uint* outsize) - compress the data, using huffman codes

• input - input data
• insize - size of input data
• outsize - pointer to size of output data
• returns: uchar* - pointer to memory where the compressed data is stored. Memory is allocated automatically (*outsize bytes). The uncompressed (original) data size is stored in first 4 bytes of the output buffer

2. uchar* huffman_decompress (uchar *input) - decompress the data, using huffman codes

• input - input data (compressed)
• returns: uchar - pointer to memory where decompressed data is stored. Memory is allocated automatically