INTRODUCTION
-This is wimlib version 1.7.2 (October 2014). wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.7.4-BETA (December 2014). wimlib is a C library for
creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging
Format (WIM files). wimlib and its command-line frontend 'wimlib-imagex'
provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX,
mode), to ensure a fast and feature-rich implementation of each platform/mode.
wimlib is mainly used on x86 and x86_64 CPUs, but it should also work on a
-number of other GCC-supported 32-bit or 64-bit architectures. No assumptions
-are made about endianness, but some code assumes that unaligned memory accesses
-are supported and relatively efficient.
+number of other GCC-supported 32-bit or 64-bit architectures. It has been
+tested on the ARM architecture.
Currently, gcc and clang are the only supported compilers. A few nonstandard
extensions are used in the code.
neither of which is completely applicable to its use in the WIM format, and
the first of which contains multiple errors.
- There does not seem to be any official documentation for LZMS, so my comments
- and code in src/lzms-decompress.c may in fact be the best documentation
+ and code in src/lzms_decompress.c may in fact be the best documentation
available for this particular compression format.
The algorithms used by wimlib's compression and decompression codecs are