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]