Re: [Qemu-devel] [RISU PATCH v5 11/13] risu: add support compressed tracefiles

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 June 2017 at 11:46, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
> This uses the magic of zlib's gzread/write interface to wrap the
> tracefile in compression. The code changes are tiny. I spent more time
> messing about with the configure/linker stuff to auto-detect bits.
>
> As you need decent multi-arch support or a correctly setup cross
> toolchain we fall back if we can't compile with zlib. This
> unfortunately needs some #ifdef hackery around the zlib bits in
> risu.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

(it would be nice if we could just mandate gzip, but
we could spend a lot of time messing about here that
doesn't seem worthwhile.)

thanks
-- PMM