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Known bugs and suggested enhancements in libpng-1.0.6
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1. April 23, 2000 -- BUG -- binary incompatibility
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Libpng-1.0.6 introduced binary incompatibility for applications that
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make direct access to the info_ptr and png_ptr, due to the insertion
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of the free_me member ahead of some previously existing members.
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STATUS: Fixed in libpng-1.0.6g
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2. April 15, 2000 -- BUG -- pnggccrd.c
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If PNG_NO_GLOBAL_ARRAYS is defined, pnggccrd.c will not compile.
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STATUS: Fixed in libpng-1.0.6g
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3. April 1, 2000 -- BUG
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Under some circumstances old applications that make direct access to
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the info_ptr->text and its members might free the same memory that
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is also free'ed by libpng during the png_destroy_struct process.
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Fixed in libpng-1.0.6-patch-c and libpng-1.0.6d. The PNG_FREE_TEXT flag
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bit in info_ptr->free_me is now checked to make sure libpng is responsible
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for freeing the memory.
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4. April 1, 2000 -- BUG
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The non-ISO-C "strdup()" function is used in png.c
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STATUS: The function has been simplified and no longer uses strdup()
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in libpng-1.0.6-patch-c and libpng-1.0.6d.
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5. March 24, 2000 -- BUG
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The png_set_rgb_to_gray_fixed() function is setting incorrect weighting
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factors.
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STATUS: Fixed in libpng-1.0.6-patch-b and libpng-1.0.6d.
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6. March 22, 2000 -- BUG
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There are some printf() and fprintf() statements active in pngwutil.c
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when PNG_NO_STDIO and PNG_sCAL_SUPPORTED are both defined.
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STATUS: Fixed in libpng-1.0.6-patch-a and libpng-1.0.6d. The strcpy()
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function is used instead.
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7. March 22, 2000 -- BUG
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The length of the iCCP chunk data is calculated incorrectly; because
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it can contain zeroes, strlen() doesn't work.
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STATUS: Fixed in libpng-1.0.6-patch-a and libpng-1.0.6d by adding a
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data_length parameter to the png_decompress_chunk() function.
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8. March 15, 1998 -- OPTIMIZATION -- Kevin Bracey
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Loops need to be optimized everywhere
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Make them count down instead of up -- Kevin Bracey
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Optimizing compilers don't need this, and making
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the change would be error prone -- Tom Lane, Glenn R-P
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Question whether i-- or --i is better.
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STATUS: Under investigation, postponed until after
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libpng-1.1.0. About 160 loops will be turned around
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in libpng-1.1.Nn, for testing.
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9. July 4, 1998 -- ENHANCEMENT -- Glenn R-P
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libpng-1.0.5 and earlier transform colors to gamma=1.0 space for
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merging with background, and then back to the image's gamma. The
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bit_depth of the intermediate (gamma=1.0) representation is probably
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not sufficient. In the typical gamma=1/2.2 situation, the linear
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pixels need about 4 more bits than the gamma-encoded ones, to avoid
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loss of precision. A similar situation exists with the rgb_to_gray
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operation.
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STATUS: under development.
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10. September 1999 -- ENHANCEMENT --
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It should be possible to use libpng without floating-point aritmetic.
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STATUS: Under investigation, implementation postponed until after
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libpng-1.0.6. The application interface will change because replacements
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for the png_set_gAMA(), png_set_cHRM(), and corresponding png_get_()
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functions will be needed.
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Much of this was completed in libpng-1.0.6, but gamma compensation
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is not yet done in fixed-point arithmetic.
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