is split out entirely to the arm subdirectory and changes to configure.ac and
Makefile.am to add new stuff are reduced. Now material code changes,
although for build test purposes, --enable-arm-neon now builds on non-ARM
systems.
Rebuilt Makefile.in, configure, etc., with autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.2.5.
the code prior to 1.5 would ignore the case where the output required an
alpha channel or when the output was a palettized PNG. In libpng-1.5 the
ignorance was lost and libpng proceeded to strip the channel resulting
in a bad (potential memory overwrite) failure later. This reverts
the behavior to the pre-1.5 state but issues a warning. libpng-1.6 is
expected to issue an error on the erroneous png_set_filler call.
handling. Internal changes only except for a new option to avoid compiling
in the png_build_grayscale_palette API (which is not used at all internally.)
The main change is to move the transform tests (READ_TRANSFORMS,
WRITE_TRANSFORMS) up one level to the caller of the APIs.
Certain optional gcc warning flags resulted in warnings in libpng code.
With these changes only -Wconversion and -Wcast-qual cannot be turned on.
Changes are trivial rearrangements of code. -Wconversion is not possible
for pngrutil.c (because of the widespread use of += et al on variables
smaller than (int) or (unsigned int)) and -Wcast-qual is not possible
with pngwio.c and pngwutil.c because the 'write' callback and zlib
compression both fail to declare their input buffers with 'const'.
literal pointers declare them (John Bowler).
Many APIs did not change their arguments but were not declared using
PNG_CONST. This change corrects this. In a few cases APIs that return
constant string literal pointers have also been changed to declare this.
Unlike the argument change this may require app changes; however the
results could never be written to (the app would crash on some platforms
where strings are not writable), so this seems advisable.
Fixed point APIs are now supported throughout (no missing APIs).
Internal fixed point arithmetic support exists for all internal floating
point operations.
sCAL validates the floating point strings it is passed.
Safe, albeit rudimentary, Watcom support is provided by PNG_API_RULE==2
Two new APIs exist to get the number of passes without turning on the
PNG_INTERLACE transform and to get the number of rows in the current
pass.
A new test program, pngvalid.c, validates the gamma code.
Errors in the 16 bit gamma correction (overflows) have been corrected.
cHRM chunk testing is done consistently (previously the floating point
API bypassed it, because the test really didn't work on FP, now the test
is performed on the actual values to be stored in the PNG file so it
works in the FP case too.)
Most floating point APIs now simply call the fixed point APIs after
converting the values to the fixed point form used in the PNG file.
The standard headers no longer include zlib.h, which is currently only
required for pngstruct.h and can therefore be internal.
(Patches by John Bowler)
