LZSS

LZSS algorithm

LZSS (Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski) compression is used for the mach_kernel.prelink file.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski

LZSS de-/compression binary

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LZSS Decompression source

• compression version coming soon

lzss-decompress.c

Apple source code

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/**************************************************************
 LZSS.C -- A Data Compression Program
***************************************************************
    4/6/1989 Haruhiko Okumura
    Use, distribute, and modify this program freely.
    Please send me your improved versions.
        PC-VAN      SCIENCE
        NIFTY-Serve PAF01022
        CompuServe  74050,1022

**************************************************************/
/*
 *  lzss.c - Package for decompressing lzss compressed objects
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 2003 Apple Computer, Inc.
 *
 *  DRI: Josh de Cesare
 */

#include <sl.h>

#define N         4096  /* size of ring buffer - must be power of 2 */
#define F         18    /* upper limit for match_length */
#define THRESHOLD 2     /* encode string into position and length
                           if match_length is greater than this */
#define NIL       N     /* index for root of binary search trees */

int
decompress_lzss(u_int8_t *dst, u_int8_t *src, u_int32_t srclen)
{
    /* ring buffer of size N, with extra F-1 bytes to aid string comparison */
    u_int8_t text_buf[N + F - 1];
    u_int8_t *dststart = dst;
    u_int8_t *srcend = src + srclen;
    int  i, j, k, r, c;
    unsigned int flags;
    
    dst = dststart;
    srcend = src + srclen;
    for (i = 0; i < N - F; i++)
        text_buf[i] = ' ';
    r = N - F;
    flags = 0;
    for ( ; ; ) {
        if (((flags >>= 1) & 0x100) == 0) {
            if (src < srcend) c = *src++; else break;
            flags = c | 0xFF00;  /* uses higher byte cleverly */
        }   /* to count eight */
        if (flags & 1) {
            if (src < srcend) c = *src++; else break;
            *dst++ = c;
            text_buf[r++] = c;
            r &= (N - 1);
        } else {
            if (src < srcend) i = *src++; else break;
            if (src < srcend) j = *src++; else break;
            i |= ((j & 0xF0) << 4);
            j  =  (j & 0x0F) + THRESHOLD;
            for (k = 0; k <= j; k++) {
                c = text_buf[(i + k) & (N - 1)];
                *dst++ = c;
                text_buf[r++] = c;
                r &= (N - 1);
            }
        }
    }
    
    return dst - dststart;
}