Package: zlib1g-dev
Version: 1:1.2.3-9
Severity: wishlist
In /usr/include/zlib.h, the description of gzclose says
The return value is the zlib error number (see function
gzerror below).
This confused me into thinking I could call gzerror after gzclose to
get a string description for the error code, but if I'm not mistaken
that's not allowed (gzclose obviously frees everything of the gzFile
pointer).
It'd be nice if the wording was clearer. I guess it's trying to say
that the return from gzclose is the same sort of error code number as
you get back from gzerror, not that you can or should use the latter.
The thing that made me go to gzerror was of course that it gives a
string description. Maybe gzclose could note that you can't get a
string for its error (assuming that's in fact the case).
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