Remove dummy structure declarations for old buggy compilers.

While woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth and before Atlantis
sunk into the ocean, there were C compilers that could not handle
forward structure references, e.g. "struct name;". zlib dutifully
provided a work-around for such compilers. That work-around is no
longer needed, and, per the recommendation of a security audit of
the zlib code by Trail of Bits and TrustInSoft, in support of the
Mozilla Foundation, should be removed since what a compiler will
do with this is technically undefined. From the report: "there is
no telling what interactions the bug could have in the future with
link-time optimizations and type-based alias analyses, both
features that are present (but not default) in clang."

Author: madler

deflate.c

@@ -151,10 +151,6 @@ local const config configuration_table[10] = {
 #define EQUAL 0
 /* result of memcmp for equal strings */
 
-#ifndef NO_DUMMY_DECL
-struct static_tree_desc_s {int dummy;}; /* for buggy compilers */
-#endif
-
 /* rank Z_BLOCK between Z_NO_FLUSH and Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH */
 #define RANK(f) (((f) * 2) - ((f) > 4 ? 9 : 0))
 

zconf.h

@@ -224,11 +224,6 @@
 #  define z_const
 #endif
 
-/* Some Mac compilers merge all .h files incorrectly: */
-#if defined(__MWERKS__)||defined(applec)||defined(THINK_C)||defined(__SC__)
-#  define NO_DUMMY_DECL
-#endif
-
 /* Maximum value for memLevel in deflateInit2 */
 #ifndef MAX_MEM_LEVEL
 #  ifdef MAXSEG_64K

zconf.h.cmakein

@@ -226,11 +226,6 @@
 #  define z_const
 #endif
 
-/* Some Mac compilers merge all .h files incorrectly: */
-#if defined(__MWERKS__)||defined(applec)||defined(THINK_C)||defined(__SC__)
-#  define NO_DUMMY_DECL
-#endif
-
 /* Maximum value for memLevel in deflateInit2 */
 #ifndef MAX_MEM_LEVEL
 #  ifdef MAXSEG_64K

zconf.h.in

@@ -224,11 +224,6 @@
 #  define z_const
 #endif
 
-/* Some Mac compilers merge all .h files incorrectly: */
-#if defined(__MWERKS__)||defined(applec)||defined(THINK_C)||defined(__SC__)
-#  define NO_DUMMY_DECL
-#endif
-
 /* Maximum value for memLevel in deflateInit2 */
 #ifndef MAX_MEM_LEVEL
 #  ifdef MAXSEG_64K

zlib.h

@@ -1759,11 +1759,6 @@ ZEXTERN int ZEXPORT gzgetc_ OF((gzFile file));  /* backward compatibility */
 
 #endif /* !Z_SOLO */
 
-/* hack for buggy compilers */
-#if !defined(ZUTIL_H) && !defined(NO_DUMMY_DECL)
-    struct internal_state {int dummy;};
-#endif
-
 /* undocumented functions */
 ZEXTERN const char   * ZEXPORT zError           OF((int));
 ZEXTERN int            ZEXPORT inflateSyncPoint OF((z_streamp));

zutil.c

@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@
 #  include "gzguts.h"
 #endif
 
-#ifndef NO_DUMMY_DECL
-struct internal_state      {int dummy;}; /* for buggy compilers */
-#endif
-
 z_const char * const z_errmsg[10] = {
 "need dictionary",     /* Z_NEED_DICT       2  */
 "stream end",          /* Z_STREAM_END      1  */