Better Describe Functionality of Obsolete Streaming Functions

diff --git a/lib/lz4.h b/lib/lz4.h
index d0ec204..80f040f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/lz4.h
+++ b/lib/lz4.h
@@ -492,15 +492,19 @@ LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_compress_fast_continue() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_co
 LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_decompress_fast() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_uncompress (const char* source, char* dest, int outputSize);
 LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_decompress_safe() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_uncompress_unknownOutputSize (const char* source, char* dest, int isize, int maxOutputSize);
 
-/* Broken, obsolete streaming functions; do not use!
+/* Obsolete streaming functions; degraded functionality; do not use!
  *
- * These functions depended on data that is no longer tracked in the state. They
- * are therefore broken--they don't retain any history across compressions.
+ * In order to perform streaming compression, these functions depended on data
+ * that is no longer tracked in the state. They have been preserved as well as
+ * possible: using them will still produce a correct output. However, they don't
+ * actually retain any history between compression calls. The compression ratio
+ * achieved will therefore be no better than compressing each chunk
+ * independently.
  */
-LZ4_DEPRECATED("Broken!!! Use LZ4_createStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API void* LZ4_create (char* inputBuffer);
+LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_createStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API void* LZ4_create (char* inputBuffer);
 LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_createStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API int   LZ4_sizeofStreamState(void);
-LZ4_DEPRECATED("Broken!!! Use LZ4_resetStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API  int   LZ4_resetStreamState(void* state, char* inputBuffer);
-LZ4_DEPRECATED("Broken!!! Use LZ4_saveDict() instead") LZ4LIB_API     char* LZ4_slideInputBuffer (void* state);
+LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_resetStream() instead") LZ4LIB_API  int   LZ4_resetStreamState(void* state, char* inputBuffer);
+LZ4_DEPRECATED("Use LZ4_saveDict() instead") LZ4LIB_API     char* LZ4_slideInputBuffer (void* state);
 
 /* Obsolete streaming decoding functions */
 LZ4_DEPRECATED("use LZ4_decompress_safe_usingDict() instead") LZ4LIB_API int LZ4_decompress_safe_withPrefix64k (const char* src, char* dst, int compressedSize, int maxDstSize);