zekesonxx / smaz-rs

Rust bindings to smaz (eventually)

smaz-rs

Rust bindings (in the form of a binary) to smaz, a small-text compression library.

As far as I'm aware, I've implemented all of this correctly. For the moment, it's just a binary that produces identical output to the smaz_test.c program included in the original code.

Q. Why didn't you just use C to mess around with this library?
A. Because I can't write C.
Q. Why didn't you just rewrite this into Rust? It's not that long.
A. Because I can't read C either.

Things that would need to be done to make it into a proper Rust library

• The C code will probably bug out on non-ASCII text. This needs to be tested, and if it does, it'll need to be accounted for in the Rust code.
• Right now it makes a buffer with inputsize*3 for the output buffer. The library will panic if it turns out to be too small.
  • This can be fixed by dynamically changing the size if it turns out not to be big enough, and recalling smaz_(de)compress
  • As far as I'm aware this can't be fixed without reimplementing smaz into Rust so the output buffer can be resized during (de)compression as needed.
• If someone else can help me, taking the sane route and, you know, reimplementing it in Rust instead of calling out to the C version.