How compress data in memory buffer by using libbz2 library in C program

Question

I try to compress memory data by using libbz2 library in C program.

Should I use this function of libbz2?:

int BZ2_bzCompress ( bz_stream *strm, int action );

Can anyone show me an example?

Thank you.

Answer 1

http://www.bzip.org/1.0.3/html/util-fns.html

Use BZ2_bzBuffToBuffCompress() and BZ2_bzBuffToBuffDecompress() for simple paired compress/decompress.

This page describes the meaning of the last 3 parms: http://www.bzip.org/1.0.3/html/low-level.html