When successful, gzputc would return the second argument. If the
second argument were -1, gzputc would return -1 instead of the
character written, which was 255. However the -1 would not be
distinguishable from an error. Now gzputc returns 255 in that
case.
Z_BUF_ERROR was also being used for an unsuccessful gzungetc and for buffer
lengths that didn't fit in an int. Those uses were changed to Z_DATA_ERROR
in order to assure that Z_BUF_ERROR occurs only when a premature end of
input occurs, indicating that gzclearerr() can be used.
gzwrite.c had hard-coded parameters to deflateInit2() which could
contradict compile-time options for the use of less memory and fewer
code bits. This patch suggested by Karsten Saunte fixes that.
This also moves some of the same from zconf.h to gzguts.h. A new
function, gzflags(), was created to pass the compilation flags
related to vsnprintf usage back to zlibCompileFlags() in zutil.c.
In the process, various compiler configuration files were updated
to include gzflags(), as well as the new gzgetc_() function added
when the gzgetc() macro was introduced in a previous patch.