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#pragma once

#include <pcl/pcl_macros.h>

namespace pcl
{
  /** \brief Compress in_len bytes stored at the memory block starting at
    * \a in_data and write the result to \a out_data, up to a maximum length
    * of \a out_len bytes using Marc Lehmann's LZF algorithm.
    *
    * If the output buffer is not large enough or any error occurs return 0,
    * otherwise return the number of bytes used, which might be considerably
    * more than in_len (but less than 104% of the original size), so it
    * makes sense to always use out_len == in_len - 1), to ensure _some_
    * compression, and store the data uncompressed otherwise (with a flag, of
    * course.
    *
    * \note The buffers must not be overlapping.
    *
    * \param[in] in_data the input uncompressed buffer
    * \param[in] in_len the length of the input buffer
    * \param[out] out_data the output buffer where the compressed result will be stored
    * \param[out] out_len the length of the output buffer
    *
    */
  PCL_EXPORTS unsigned int 
  lzfCompress (const void *const in_data,  unsigned int in_len,
               void             *out_data, unsigned int out_len);

  /** \brief Decompress data compressed with the \a lzfCompress function and
    * stored at location \a in_data and length \a in_len. The result will be
    * stored at \a out_data up to a maximum of \a out_len characters.
    *
    * If the output buffer is not large enough to hold the decompressed
    * data, a 0 is returned and errno is set to E2BIG. Otherwise the number
    * of decompressed bytes (i.e. the original length of the data) is
    * returned.
    *
    * If an error in the compressed data is detected, a zero is returned and
    * errno is set to EINVAL.
    *
    * This function is very fast, about as fast as a copying loop.
    * \param[in] in_data the input compressed buffer 
    * \param[in] in_len the length of the input buffer
    * \param[out] out_data the output buffer (must be resized to \a out_len)
    * \param[out] out_len the length of the output buffer
    */
  PCL_EXPORTS unsigned int 
  lzfDecompress (const void *const in_data,  unsigned int in_len,
                 void             *out_data, unsigned int out_len);
}