Libspng 0.4.4 – modern alternative to libpng, single source/header pair

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How does this compare to decoders written in Rust? From a security standpoint, rust decoders may have an edge.

https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/image-png

If you look at that crate's issue tracker you can see open issues titled "Crash on malformed input", "4-bit grayscale image is read as 8-bit", I don't think it's safer or even tested to be correct. For spng there is continuous regression testing which verifies the decoded images against libpng and is fuzzed by OSS-Fuzz (https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz) just like libpng.

Curious why, seeing as the source code is so small, you don't just make the single source/header pair the default (and only) distribution? Why even split it into separate files?

It would make the source file ~6k actual lines once the encoder and other features are added, but I see your point.

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