On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:19:49PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> void hugehelp(void)
> {
> - unsigned char* buf;
> + unsigned char buf[BUF_SIZE];
> int status,headerlen;
> z_stream z;

IIRC, this particular code used to allocate the buffer on the stack, and was
changed to malloc when problems arose on one of the BSDs, I think, which had a
64 KiB stack limit by default.

>>> Dan
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