READ_GAMMA. Prior to 1.6.0 switching off READ_GAMMA did unpredictable things
to the interfaces that use it (specifically, png_do_background in 1.4 would
simply display composite for grayscale images but do composition
with the incorrect arithmetic for color ones). In 1.6 the semantic
of -DPNG_NO_READ_GAMMA is changed to simply disable any interface that
depends on it; this obliges people who set it to consider whether they
really want it off if they happen to use any of the interfaces in
question (typically most users who disable it won't).
management system (CMS). In practice it is not possible to obtain cHRM
information reliably using just the end-point tags because they do not exist
in the vast majority of profiles. Instead it is necessary to run the endpoints
through the ICC colorimetric intent transform (as described in the v4
spec). Since this is likely to be too much code inside libpng for too
little gain (it implies a fairly complete CMS implementation) the code
has been changed to allow an external CMS to be used. This code is
temporarily disabled until a suitable set of test cases using one or more
external CMS implementations have been implemented.
type rules. By the ANSI-C standard the new types should be identical to the
previous versions, and all known versions of gcc tested with the previous
versions except for GCC-4.2.1 work with this version. The change makes the
ANSI-C rule that const applied to an array of elements applies instead to the
elements in the array moot by explicitly applying const to the base
elements of the png_icc_matrix and png_icc_vector types. The accidental
(harmless) 'const' previously applied to the parameters of two of the
functions have also been removed.
fixed Cygwin+MSVC build errors. The ICC profile handling now includes more
checking. Several errors that caused rejection of the profile are now
handled with a warning in such a way that the invalid profiles will be
read by default in release (but not pre-RC) builds but will not be
written by default. The easy part of handling a cHRM chunk is written,
where the ICC profile contains the required data. The more difficult
part plus guessing a gAMA value requires code to pass selected RGB values
through the profile.
option to pngtest. The "--relaxed" option turns off the benign errors that are
enabled by default in pre-RC builds. makepng can now write ICC profiles
where the length has not been extended to a multiple of 4, and pngtest
now intercepts all libpng errors, allowing the previously-introduced
"--strict test" on no warnings to actually work.
contrib/libtests/makepng: corrected 'rgb' and 'gray' cases. profile_error
messages could be truncated; made a correct buffer size calculation and
adjusted pngerror.c appropriately. png_icc_check_* checking improved;
changed the functions to receive the correct color type of the PNG on read
or write and check that it matches the color space of the profile (despite
what the comments said before, there is danger in assuming the app will
cope correctly with an RGB profile on a grayscale image and, since it
violates the PNG spec, allowing it is certain to produce inconsistent
app behavior and might even cause app crashes.) Check that profiles
contain the tags needed to process the PNG (tags all required by the ICC
spec). Removed unused PNG_STATIC from pngpriv.h.
png_handle_unknown() when SAVE support is absent. Moved the shell test
scripts for contrib/libtests from the libpng top directory to contrib/libtests.
png_handle_unknown() must always read or skip the chunk, if
SAVE_UNKNOWN_CHUNKS is turned off *and* the application does not set
a user callback an unknown chunk will not be read, leading to a read
error, which was revealed by the "tunknown" test.
libpng handling of unknown chunks other than vpAg and sTER (including
unsafe-to-copy chunks which were dropped before) and eliminates the
repositioning of vpAg and sTER in pngtest.png by changing pngtest.png
(so the chunks are where libpng would put them).
png_set_keep_unknown_chunks() to be turned off if not required and causes
both read and write to behave appropriately (on read this is only possible
if the user callback is used to handle unknown chunks). The change
also removes the support for storing unknown chunks in the info_struct
if the only unknown handling enabled is via the callback, allowing libpng
to be configured with callback reading and none of the unnecessary code.
control of the unknown handling, corrects the pre-existing bug where
the per-chunk 'keep' setting is ignored and makes it possible to skip
IDAT chunks in the sequential reader (broken in earlier 1.6 versions).
There is a new test program, test-unknown.c, which is a work in progress
(not currently part of the test suite). Comments in the header files now
explain how the unknown handling works.
support. Now "make check" will succeed even if libpng is compiled with
-DPNG_NO_READ or -DPNG_NO_WRITE. The tests performed are reduced, but the
basic reading and writing of a PNG file is always tested by one or more of
the tests.
errors) and cause it not to fail at the comparison step if libpng lacks support
for writing chunks that it reads from the input (currently only implemented
for compressed text chunks).
on read and write. In libpng 1.6 the two cases can be distinguished and
considerable code cleanup, and extra error checking, is possible. This
makes calls on the write side that have no effect be ignored with a
png_app_error(), which can be disabled in the app using
png_set_benign_errors(), and removes the spurious use of usr_channels
on the read side.
Because of the changes to support symbol prefixing PNG_INTERNAL_FUNCTION
declares floating point APIs during libpng builds even if they are completely
disabled. This requires the png floating point types (png_double*) to be
declared even though the functions are never actually defined. This
change provides a dummy definition so that the declarations work, yet any
implementation will fail to compile because of an incomplete type.
ignore all unknown chunks and all known chunks except for IHDR, PLTE, tRNS,
IDAT, and IEND. Previously it only meant ignore all unknown chunks, the
same as num_chunks == 0. Revised png_image_skip_unused_chunks() to
provide a list of chunks to be processed instead of a list of chunks to
ignore. Revised contrib/gregbook/readpng2.c accordingly.
The compiler performs an optimization which is safe; however it then warns
about it. Changing the type of 'palette_number' in pngvalid.c removes the
warning.
on alignment increasing pointer casts when -Wcast-align is passed. This
fixes the cases clang warns about either (pngread.c) by eliminating the
casts from png_bytep to png_uint_16p or, for pngrutil.c where the cast
is previously verified or pngstest.c where it is OK by introducing new
png_aligncast macros to do the cast in a way that clang accepts.
around architecture list; add missing ppc architecture; add architecture
options to shared library link; don't try to create a shared lib based on
missing RELEASE variable (Toby Thain).
checks. The code now does a png_error if an attempt is made to do the
row initialization twice; this is an application error and it has
serious consequences because the transform data in png_struct is
changed by each call.
This turns on PNG_FLAG_DETECT_UNINITIALIZED to detect app code that
fails to call one of the 'start' routines (not enabled in libpng-1.5
because it is technically an API change, since it did normally work
before.) It also makes duplicate calls to png_read_start_row (an
internal function called at the start of the image read) benign, as
they were before changes to use png_inflate_claim. Somehow webkit is
causing this to happen; this is probably a mis-feature in the zlib
changes so this commit is only a work-round.
default. Also changed some warnings in the iCCP and sRGB handling
from to benign errors. Configuration now makes read benign
errors warnings and write benign errors to errors by default (thus
changing the behavior on read). The simplified API always forces
read benign errors to errors (regardless of the system default, unless
this is disabled in which case the simplified API can't be built.)
This is necessary because the VS2010 output window otherwise simply loses
the error messages on error (they weren't flushed to the window before
the process exited, apparently!)
inflate. This works round a bug introduced in 1.5.4 where compressed ancillary
chunks could end up with a too-small windowBits value in the deflate
header.
functions [rw]util.c. A new shared keyword check routine was also added
and the 'zbuf' is no longer allocated on progressive read. It is now
possible to call png_inflate() incrementally.
read code now claims and releases png_ptr->zstream, like the write code.
The bug whereby the progressive reader failed to release the zstream
is now fixed, all initialization is delayed, and the code checks for
changed parameters on deflate rather than always calling
deflatedEnd/deflateInit.
problems. This is an intermediate check-in that solves the immediate problems
and introduces one performance improvement (avoiding a copy via png_ptr->zbuf.)
Further changes will be made to make ICC profile handling more secure.
options declares 'index' as a global, causing a warning if it is used as a
local variable. GCC 64-bit warns about assigning a (size_t) (unsigned 64-bit)
to an (int) (signed 32-bit). MSVC, however, warns about using the
unary '-' operator on an unsigned value (even though it is well defined
by ANSI-C to be ~x+1). The padding calculation was changed to use a
different method. Removed the tests on png_ptr->pass.
all potentially valid ICC profiles and reject obviously invalid ones.
It now uses png_error() to do so rather than casually writing a PNG
without the necessary color data.
generator. The generator generates images that test the full range of sample
values, allow the error numbers in pngstest to be tuned and checked. makepng
also allows generation of images with extra chunks, although this is
still work-in-progress.
store intermediate files, or intermediate in-memory data, while processing
image data with the simplified API. The option makes the files larger
but faster to write and read. pngstest now uses this by default; this
can be disabled with the --slow option.
to reset the user limits to safe ones if PNG_SAFE_LIMITS is defined.
To enable, use CPPFLAGS=-DPNG_SAFE_LIMITS on the configure command
or put #define PNG_SAFE_LIMITS_SUPPORTED in pnglibconf.h.prebuilt.
(Reverted previous implementation of PNG_SECURE.)
pngpread.c and use the sequential png_handle_tEXt, etc., in pngrutil.c;
now that png_ptr->buffer is inaccessible to applications, the special
handling is no longer useful.
FLOATING_POINT options were switched off, png.h ended up with lone ';'
characters. This is not valid ANSI-C outside a function. The ';'
characters have been moved inside the definition of PNG_FP_EXPORT and
PNG_FIXED_EXPORT. 2) If either option was switched off, the declaration
of the corresponding functions were completely omitted, even though some
of them are still used internally. The result is still valid, but
produces warnings from gcc with some warning options (including -Wall). The
fix is to cause png.h to declare the functions with PNG_INTERNAL_FUNCTION
when png.h is included from pngpriv.h.
Fixed a memory overwrite bug in simplified read of RGB PNG with
non-linear gamma Also bugs in the error checking in pngread.c and changed
quite a lot of the checks in pngstest.c to be correct; either correctly
written or not over-optimistic. The pngstest changes are insufficient to
allow all possible RGB transforms to be passed; pngstest cmppixel needs
to be rewritten to make it clearer which errors it allows and then changed
to permit known inaccuracies.
The API is extremely inaccurate for sRGB conversions because it uses an 8-bit
intermediate linear value and it does not use the sRGB transform, so it
suffers from the known instability in gamma transforms for values close
to 0 (see Poynton). The net result is that the calculation has a maximum
error of 14.99/255; 0.5/255^(1/2.2). pngstest now uses 15 for the
permitted 8-bit error. This may still not be enough because of arithmetic
error.
to the background parameter of png_image_finish_read. The --background
option is now done automagically only when required, so that commandline
option no longer exists.
Also some layout regularization and removal of introduced tab characters
(replaced with 3-character indentation). Obsolete macros identified by
autoupdate have been removed; the replacements are all in 2.59 so
the pre-req hasn't been changed. --enable-werror checks for support
for -Werror (or the given argument) in the compiler. This mimics the
gcc configure option by allowing -Werror to be turned on safely; without
the option the tests written in configure itself fail compilation because
they cause compiler warnings.
compiler issues slightly different warnings from those issued by the
current vesions of GCC. This eliminates those warnings by
adding/removing casts and small code rewrites.
those uses of png_memcpy that were doing a simple assignment to assignments
(all those cases where the thing being copied is a non-array C L-value.)
Added some error checking to png_set_*() routines and removed the
reference to the non-exported function png_memcpy() from example.c. Fixed
the Visual C 64-bit build - it requires jmp_buf to be aligned, but it had
become misaligned.
Added new "png_structrp" typedef. Because of the
way libpng works both png_info and png_struct are always accessed via a
single pointer. This means adding C99 'restrict' to the pointer gives
the compiler some opportunity to optimize the code. This change allows that.
Previously it was disabled whenever internal fixed point arithmetic was
selected, which meant it didn't exist even on systems where FP was available
but not preferred.
These changes alter how the tricky allocation of the initial png_struct and
png_info structures are handled. png_info is now handled in pretty much the
same way as everything else, except that the allocations handle NULL return
silently. png_struct is changed in a similar way on allocation and on
deallocation a 'safety' error handler is put in place (which should never
be required). The error handler itself is changed to permit mismatches
in the application and libpng error buffer size; however, this means a
silent change to the API to return the jmp_buf if the size doesn't match
the size from the libpng compilation; libpng now allocates the memory and
this may fail. Overall these changes result in slight code size
reductions; however, this is a reduction in code that is always executed
so is particularly valuable. Overall on a 64-bit system the libpng DLL
decreases in code size by 1733 bytes. pngerror.o increases in size by
about 465 bytes because of the new functionality.
of parallelism during 'make' the use of the same temporary file names such
as 'dfn*' can result in a race where a temporary file from one arm of the
build is deleted or overwritten in another arm. This changes the
temporary files for suffix rules to always use $* and ensures that the
non-suffix rules use unique file names.
Some compilers fault 'extern const' data declarations (because the data is
not initialized); this turns on const-ness only for compilers where
this is known to work.
The slightly modified tables reduce the number of 16-bit values that
convert to an off-by-one 8-bit value. The "makesRGB.c" code that was used
to generate the tables is now in a contrib/sRGBtables sub-directory.
the sBIT fields in the test pixel as 0, which resulted in a floating
point division by zero which was irrelevant but causes systems where
FP exceptions cause a crash. Added code to pngvalid to turn on FP
exceptions if the appropriate glibc support is there to ensure this is
tested in the future.
casts. The compression_type parameter is always assigned to, so must
be non-NULL. The cast of the profile length potentially truncated the
value unnecessarily on a 16-bit int system, so the cast of the (byte)
compression type to (int) is specified by ANSI-C anyway.
changes the 'Paeth' reconstruction function to improve the GCC code
generation on x86. The changes are only part of the suggested ones;
just the changes that definitely improve speed and remain simple.
The changes also slightly increase the clarity of the code. In a
in pngmem.c; pngvalid would attempt to call png_error() if the allocation
of a png_struct or png_info failed. This would probably have led to a
crash. The pngmem.c implementation of png_malloc() included a cast
to png_size_t which would fail on large allocations on 16-bit systems.