--- Compress-LZF/lzf_c.c	2010/05/30 05:51:09	1.11
+++ Compress-LZF/lzf_c.c	2010/06/01 03:30:34	1.12
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Marc Alexander Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
+ * Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Marc Alexander Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
  * 
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica-
  * tion, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
 
 /*
  * don't play with this unless you benchmark!
- * decompression is not dependent on the hash function
- * the hashing function might seem strange, just believe me
+ * the data format is not dependent on the hash function.
+ * the hash function might seem strange, just believe me,
  * it works ;)
  */
 #ifndef FRST
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@
 #if !LZF_STATE_ARG
   LZF_STATE htab;
 #endif
-  const u8 **hslot;
   const u8 *ip = (const u8 *)in_data;
         u8 *op = (u8 *)out_data;
   const u8 *in_end  = ip + in_len;
@@ -133,10 +132,6 @@
 
 #if INIT_HTAB
   memset (htab, 0, sizeof (htab));
-# if 0
-  for (hslot = htab; hslot < htab + HSIZE; hslot++)
-    *hslot++ = ip;
-# endif
 #endif
 
   lit = 0; op++; /* start run */
@@ -144,9 +139,11 @@
   hval = FRST (ip);
   while (ip < in_end - 2)
     {
+      LZF_HSLOT *hslot;
+
       hval = NEXT (hval, ip);
       hslot = htab + IDX (hval);
-      ref = *hslot; *hslot = ip;
+      ref = *hslot + LZF_HSLOT_BIAS; *hslot = ip - LZF_HSLOT_BIAS;
 
       if (1
 #if INIT_HTAB
@@ -155,13 +152,11 @@
           && (off = ip - ref - 1) < MAX_OFF
           && ip + 4 < in_end
           && ref > (u8 *)in_data
-#if STRICT_ALIGN
-          && ref[0] == ip[0]
-          && ref[1] == ip[1]
           && ref[2] == ip[2]
+#if STRICT_ALIGN
+          && (ref[1] << 8) | ref[0] == (ip[1] << 8) | ip[0]
 #else
           && *(u16 *)ref == *(u16 *)ip
-          && ref[2] == ip[2]
 #endif
         )
         {
@@ -238,12 +233,12 @@
           hval = FRST (ip);
 
           hval = NEXT (hval, ip);
-          htab[IDX (hval)] = ip;
+          htab[IDX (hval)] = ip - LZF_HSLOT_BIAS;
           ip++;
 
 # if VERY_FAST && !ULTRA_FAST
           hval = NEXT (hval, ip);
-          htab[IDX (hval)] = ip;
+          htab[IDX (hval)] = ip - LZF_HSLOT_BIAS;
           ip++;
 # endif
 #else
@@ -252,7 +247,7 @@
           do
             {
               hval = NEXT (hval, ip);
-              htab[IDX (hval)] = ip;
+              htab[IDX (hval)] = ip - LZF_HSLOT_BIAS;
               ip++;
             }
           while (len--);