Mark Mitchell wrote: > (My opinion, FWIW, would be that you should do this import if (and > pretty much only if) you can document that bugs are fixed or performance > is improved; if not, then you're probably taking on a risk without much > end-user upside.) Note that there is at least one buffer overflow error in zlib 1.1.4: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/312869 I got it from PR15697: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15697 The performance improvements are documented on the zlib home page and elsewhere: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ Ranjit. -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.tripod.com/