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Summary

  • Decodes the v0.5, v0.6 and v0.7 frame formats, as every libzstd 1.5.7 build does by default, through the same entry points as RFC 8878 frames: the Rust API, the C ABI and the command line.
  • legacy cargo feature, on by default; without it these frames are refused as an unknown prefix, as a libzstd built at legacy level 0 refuses them.

Changes

  • decoding/legacy: one decoder per format over a shared entropy layer (FSE tables up to 4096 states, Huffman descriptions with the weight-run header, one and four streams), its tables and literal buffer reused from frame to frame. The declared content size is not enforced, since the v0.6.2 command line declares its first chunk's size; v0.5 and v0.6 refuse the RLE block type they reserve, as upstream's decoders do.
  • The decoder's settings and accessors apply to these frames as to RFC 8878 ones, on the streaming and whole-buffer paths: the content checksum mode on v0.7's 22-bit checksum, the block limit, a window ceiling lowered mid-frame, pinned dictionary IDs and window descriptors, per-block checksums, force_dict, dictionary, content_size, blocks_decoded, the checksum accessors and workspace_size.
  • WorkspaceDecoder refuses these frames as Unsupported::LegacyFrame: their decoders allocate, as upstream's static context refuses them too.
  • Frame queries (read_frame_content_size, find_frame_compressed_size, find_decompressed_size, frame_decompressed_bound, frame_header_size, new is_frame) answer for these frames, a header measured by its own format's size fields.
  • FrameDecoder::decode_all* decodes them into the caller's slice; a Read-driven reset that meets their magic number starts a stream, so decode_blocks, decode_from_to, collect, read, StreamingDecoder and the C stream decode them unchanged. The stream keeps its history in segments of the window and a block, the previous segment read for matches that reach past the current one's start.
  • A v0.7 frame takes its dictionary from a parsed DictionaryHandle, by ID or as given; v0.5 and v0.6 read a dictionary as its content.
  • LegacyVersion names the formats; LegacyVersion::header_size measures a header arriving in pieces.
  • C ABI: ZSTD_isFrame and ZSTD_decompressStream accept these frames; the queries and one-shot decoders go through the codec. No new exported symbols.
  • Command line: -d, -t, -c and -D decode them; -l refuses them, as the reference does.
  • scripts/legacy-fixtures.sh builds the v0.5.1, v0.6.2 and v0.7.5 command lines from digest-checked tags and writes zstd/legacy_frames; each frame decodes through libzstd 1.5.7 to its source.
  • decode_legacy fuzz target: whole-buffer and streaming decodes of the same input must agree; CI replays its committed crash inputs before a seeded run.

Testing

  • Gates: fmt, clippy in every CI feature set (no_std with and without legacy included, x86 included), the full test suites of the codec, the C ABI crate and ffi-bench, doc tests and rustdoc. CI adds a no_std build with legacy, the decoding and command-line tests with the feature off, and a seeded fuzz run of decode_legacy.

Closes #131

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The change adds v0.5–v0.7 frame decoding. Rust, C API, and CLI paths recognize these frames when legacy is enabled. The change adds feature-disabled rejection, fixtures, tests, fuzzing, documentation, and CI coverage.

Changes: Legacy frame decoding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Legacy format decoding
zstd/src/decoding/legacy/*, zstd/src/decoding/legacy/entropy/*
Shared frame and entropy code now decodes v0.5, v0.6, and v0.7 frames. The decoders support dictionaries, checksums, frame boundaries, one-shot decoding, and streaming output.
Rust decoder and frame inspection
zstd/src/decoding/frame_decoder.rs, zstd/src/decoding/errors.rs, zstd/src/decoding/mod.rs, zstd/src/decoding/streaming_decoder.rs, zstd/src/huff0/huff0_decoder.rs, zstd/src/decoding/frame_inspection_tests.rs
Rust decoding and frame queries dispatch recognized legacy frames to the legacy implementation. Errors, dictionaries, output collection, and streaming state include legacy results. Feature-disabled tests reject legacy magic.
C API and CLI integration
c-api/src/frame.rs, c-api/src/streaming.rs, c-api/src/tests.rs, c-api/src/tests/legacy.rs, zstd/src/bin/structured-zstd/main.rs, zstd/src/bin/structured-zstd/tests.rs
C API frame recognition and streaming handle legacy frames, including partial headers. The CLI uses the shared frame classifier. Tests cover fixture decoding, mixed streams, queries, and dictionary errors.
Fixtures, fuzzing, and CI validation
scripts/legacy-fixtures.sh, zstd/fuzz/*, .github/workflows/ci.yml
The fixture script builds v0.5.1, v0.6.2, and v0.7.5 tools and generates dictionary, repeated-input, checksum, and dictionary-ID variants. Fuzzing compares whole-buffer and streaming decoding. CI covers enabled, disabled, no-std, bare-metal, and seeded fuzz configurations.
Feature configuration and documentation
zstd/Cargo.toml, README.md, zstd/src/lib.rs
The legacy feature is enabled by default and excluded fixture files from package publication. Documentation describes supported versions and feature-disabled rejection.

SIMD kernel test update

Layer / File(s) Summary
SIMD kernel candidate list
zstd/src/decoding/simd_copy/tests.rs
The test builds the runnable kernel list from optional entries. Kernel conditions remain unchanged.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FrameDecoder
  participant LegacyVersion
  participant LegacyStream
  participant LegacyDecoder
  FrameDecoder->>LegacyVersion: identify legacy magic
  LegacyVersion-->>FrameDecoder: return v0.5, v0.6, or v0.7
  FrameDecoder->>LegacyStream: initialize frame and dictionary state
  LegacyStream->>LegacyDecoder: decode legacy blocks
  LegacyDecoder-->>LegacyStream: return output and frame status
  LegacyStream-->>FrameDecoder: provide output, counters, and completion
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The legacy v0.5–v0.7 decoding work has no known outstanding defects at this head. The remaining suggestion is to add a test for a stalled dictionary-ID read in a legacy frame header; it can be handled as a follow-up and does not block merging.

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Out of Scope Changes check Warning The change in zstd/src/decoding/simd_copy/tests.rs only changes how SIMD copy kernels are collected for tests. The diff does not connect this change to legacy frame parsing, dispatch, validation, or… Remove the unrelated zstd/src/decoding/simd_copy/tests.rs change, or provide evidence that the change is required for the legacy-frame implementation or its required CI coverage.
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Issue #131 is open and directly linked. The PR adds default-enabled legacy decoding for v0.5, v0.6, and v0.7. The reported implementation and tests cover Rust APIs, mixed streams, frame queries, C ABI entry points, CLI decoding and -l refusal, dictionaries, malformed input, and feature-off refusal. The fuzz target compares whole-buffer and streaming decoding. The CI changes cover feature-on, feature-off, and no_std builds. The issue excludes v0.1-v0.4 decoding and legacy encoding, and the reported scope does not add them.

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The change in zstd/src/decoding/simd_copy/tests.rs only changes how SIMD copy kernels are collected for tests. The diff does not connect this change to legacy frame parsing, dispatch, validation, or legacy test coverage. The remaining reported changes support Issue #131 or its tests and documentation.

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Remove the unrelated zstd/src/decoding/simd_copy/tests.rs change, or provide evidence that the change is required for the legacy-frame implementation or its required CI coverage.

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libzstd 1.5.7 reads these by default (legacy level 5 in every upstream
build system and in the distributions), so the decoder needs them too.

- decoding/legacy: one module per format plus the shared entropy layer
  (FSE tables up to 4096 states, the Huffman description with its
  weight-run header, one and four streams). Only the backward bit reader
  is shared with the RFC 8878 decoder; the formats differ from it and
  from each other in headers, literal and sequence coding, dictionaries
  and how an FSE string ends.
- A block decodes to at most 128 KiB; a v0.7 content checksum is
  verified; the declared content size is not enforced, since the v0.6.2
  command line declares its first chunk's size.
- `legacy` feature, on by default.
- scripts/legacy-fixtures.sh builds the v0.5.1, v0.6.2 and v0.7.5
  command lines from digest-checked tags and writes zstd/legacy_frames,
  each frame checked to decode through libzstd 1.5.7 to its source.

Part of #131
- read_frame_content_size, find_frame_compressed_size,
  find_decompressed_size and frame_decompressed_bound read these
  frames as libzstd does: the declared size or unknown, the length
  through the end block, and 128 KiB per block as the bound. The size
  walk reads the header's size fields only, as upstream's does.
- is_frame: the codec's answer for ZSTD_isFrame, legacy magics
  included when the feature is on.
- FrameDecoder::decode_all and its dictionary variants decode these
  frames straight into the caller's slice; a v0.7 frame naming a
  dictionary takes it from the handles given or from the registry.
- A v0.7 frame takes its dictionary tables from the parsed
  Dictionary, so a handle serves both formats without a second copy
  of the dictionary bytes.

Part of #131
- A Read-driven reset that meets a v0.5-v0.7 magic number reads the
  rest of that header from the same source and starts the frame on a
  LegacyStream; an RFC 8878 frame pays nothing, since the check sits
  on the bad-magic error the parser already returns.
- The step interface follows: input_needed, decode_from_to,
  decode_blocks, collect, read, is_finished and the counters drive
  the stream, so StreamingDecoder and any caller of that interface
  decode these frames with no change of its own. The stream keeps
  the window plus a block of history and drops what lies out of
  reach once handed out.
- read_to_end and concatenated frames decode them into the output
  vector; a forced dictionary applies as it does to RFC frames.
- Dictionaries reach these frames only as parsed handles; the raw
  byte form and the v0.7 byte loader it needed are gone.
- The bit-flip test now checks that a v0.7 frame decodes to other
  content only when that content matches the 22-bit checksum it
  carries; one fixture flip is such a collision.
- simd_copy tests build their kernel list without a mut binding that
  a build without kernel features never pushes to.

Part of #131
- LegacyVersion::header_size: a frame header's length from its size
  fields, for a caller that reads a header in pieces, as the C ABI
  stream does.
- LegacyFrameError::WindowTooLarge is gone: a window past the ceiling
  is refused as FrameDecoderError::WindowSizeTooBig, as for RFC 8878
  frames, and nothing built the variant.

Part of #131
- ZSTD_isFrame answers through the codec's is_frame, these frames
  included, as libzstd 1.5.7 answers by default.
- ZSTD_decompressStream measures such a header by its own size
  fields while it arrives in pieces, then starts the frame from the
  same reader; the frame queries and one-shot decoders already go
  through the codec.
- The command line asks the codec whether input is a frame, so -d,
  -t and -c decode these frames; -l keeps refusing them, as the
  reference does.
- Tests on the fixtures: the frame queries, ZSTD_decompress and
  _usingDict, the stream in 7-byte pieces with a DDict, a stream
  mixing them with RFC 8878 frames, and the command line.

Part of #131
- The stream held its history in one vector and dropped what fell out
  of reach by moving the rest to the front, so every block past the
  window moved a whole window of bytes. It now writes in segments of
  at most the window and a block: a block that would not fit starts
  the next segment at the buffer's start, and a match reaching past
  that start reads from the segment before, which the new one has not
  overwritten yet, as upstream's buffered decoders wrap. No history is
  moved, and the buffer stays within the window and a block.
- FSE and Huffman tables are rebuilt in the storage of the tables they
  replace, and the Huffman weight table is kept for the next
  description, instead of a fresh vector per block that sends one.
- Fixtures: z000000 eight times over, from each command line, a frame
  several windows long whose matches cross the segment boundary;
  checked to decode through libzstd 1.5.7.
- Tests: the stream reads those frames with the buffer bounded by the
  window and a block; a table rebuilt in place is a fresh one.

Part of #131
- decode_legacy fuzz target: input kept on a v0.5-v0.7 magic number,
  decoded whole into a slice and through the stream, and the two
  outputs must agree; CI runs it 90 s seeded with zstd/legacy_frames.
- CI: no_std clippy and the x86_64-unknown-none build with `legacy`,
  and the decoding and command-line tests again with the feature off.
- Without `legacy` a v0.5-v0.7 frame is refused as an unknown prefix
  by the queries and the decoder (test); the command-line test of
  these frames runs with the feature only.
- Crate docs and README: the `legacy` feature and what it reads; the
  README feature table also marks dict-builder as on by default, as
  the manifest has it.

Part of #131
- decode_from_to on a fresh decoder hands a v0.5-v0.7 frame its header
  started to the frame's stream instead of panicking
- the content checksum mode applies to v0.7's 22-bit checksum: None
  computes nothing, EmitOnly exposes both values, Verify refuses a
  mismatch; get_checksum_from_data / get_calculated_checksum report them
- set_max_block_size holds these frames' blocks to the limit on every
  path, and a block its header rules out (past the limit, or RLE in v0.5
  and v0.6, which reserve the type as upstream's decoders do) needs only
  its header
- a window ceiling lowered under a started frame refuses its next step
- content_size and blocks_decoded describe the frame in progress
- a reader error inside the header is returned in the field it hit
- the per-format decoder keeps its entropy tables and literal buffer
  across frames, whole-buffer ones too, and workspace_size counts them
- CI replays committed decode_legacy crash inputs before the fresh run
- simd_copy tests name the kernel type without a trivial cast

Regression tests cover each of the above.

Part of #131
- the caller-workspace decoder reports a v0.5-v0.7 frame as
  Unsupported::LegacyFrame rather than malformed: the owned decoders
  read it, and its decoders allocate, as upstream's static context
  refuses them
- pinned dictionary IDs and window descriptors bind these frames on the
  streaming and whole-buffer paths: v0.7 carries both fields, v0.5 and
  v0.6 neither
- per-block checksums cover their blocks on every path
- after decode_all the accessors describe the frame decoded last, which
  stays current, finished, until the next header
- find_decompressed_size refuses a v0.5-v0.7 tail shorter than a
  frame's first five bytes, as upstream does
- the whole-buffer path borrows a held dictionary instead of counting a
  handle per frame
- a new header ends any v0.5-v0.7 frame before it is read, so a header
  that fails to read leaves no stale frame behind
- drop VecOutput's limit, which every caller set to usize::MAX, and the
  copy_match branches no output can reach, now a debug assertion

Regression tests cover each fix; further tests cover the error codes,
literal headers, one-symbol sequence tables, reader errors inside a
block, held-back output, and arbitrary descriptions and overwritten
frames, which must not panic.

Part of #131
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- force_dict gives a started v0.5-v0.7 frame the registered dictionary,
  as it does an RFC 8878 frame: its tables, repeat offsets and content
  prime the blocks still to come; a v0.7 header naming another
  dictionary still refuses it
- FrameDecoder::dictionary reports the handle such a frame decodes with
- frame_header_size, and so ZSTD_frameHeaderSize, measures these headers
  by their own size fields instead of refusing the frames ZSTD_isFrame
  accepts
- a reader failing inside a raw or RLE block's body names that block
  type in the error

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