uncompressed block at the end of each compressed packet) which we
were embarrassingly unable to deal with because we assumed every
uncompressed block contained at least one byte. Particularly silly
because I _knew_ about the existence of sync flush when I coded this
module. Arrgh. Still, now fixed.
[originally from svn r1824]
compression. This involves introducing an option to disable Zlib
compression (that is, continue to work within the Zlib format but
output an uncompressed block) for the duration of a single packet.
[originally from svn r982]
smalloc() macros and thence to the safemalloc() functions in misc.c.
This should allow me to plug in a debugging allocator and track
memory leaks and segfaults and things.
[originally from svn r818]
