ChorusOS 5.0 Features and Architecture Overview

GZ_FILE

The GZ_FILE feature enables dynamically loaded actors and dynamic libraries to be uncompressed at load time, prior to execution. This minimizes the space required to store these compressed files and the download time.

The GZ_FILE feature has no API. It is based on the gunzip tool. Thus, an executable file compressed on the host system using the gzip command (whose suffix is .gz) will be recognized automatically as a compressed executable file or dynamic library and uncompressed by the system at load time.

For details, see GZ_FILE(5FEA).