Re: winhelp: bug fix in LZ77 decompressor - prehistory to make things clear

[HolyLich]

> > Why?
> >
> > Er, if the memcpy worked (or almost worked) and failed due to overlap
> > problems, then memmove will do the trick. Did it ever work at all before?
> > Either this code never worked, or you're either seeing a problem that doesn't
> > exist/misunderstanding things.
> >
> > Cheers, Kuba

Um, sorry, I didn't understand question.

I try to explain why memcpy worked before.

It did not worked. As far as I noticed, this bug does not affect small files (<=0x1000)
but if file was large enough (>0x1000 byte) - it will appear.
In my case it was multi-colour metafile (jwpce.hlp, http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html - lots of metafiles).
Small pictures are OK, but large are jammed.

What is interesting, the bug affected bitmap part of metafile, so no errors while PlayMetaFile,
but the result bitmap was jammed a little.

  --HolyLich

winhelp: bug fix in LZ77 decompressor - prehistory to make things clear

[Kuba Ober]

> I try to explain why memcpy worked before.
>
> It did not worked. As far as I noticed, this bug does not affect small
> files (<=0x1000) but if file was large enough (>0x1000 byte) - it will
> appear.

[ . . . ]

Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

Cheers, Kuba