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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 1997 13:17:08 -0800
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"William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

> Does this crash for everyone else?  The DGIF code is giving me a headache.
> And does anyone know of freely available GIF decoding libraries that are
> not eligible for obfuscated C '98?

The only other ones I found /easily/ were those in xloadimage and xv,
and they both gave me headaches too.  And I'm still not sure either is
useful for our needs.

Our current dgif code also appears to leak memory when there are errors
in the gif.  And this whole business about writing the gifs to a temp
file for the decode to read them sucks.  (Note that the other gif
libraries I've seen are written in that paradigm too).

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