#define IS_ASCII(c) (((c) & 0x80) == 0)
-/* Decode data from BASE64 (pointer to \0-terminated text) into memory
- pointed to by DEST. DEST should be large enough to accomodate the
- decoded data, which is guaranteed to be less than strlen(base64).
+/* Decode data from BASE64 (a null-terminated string) into memory
+ pointed to by DEST. DEST is assumed to be large enough to
+ accomodate the decoded data, which is guaranteed to be no more than
+ 3/4*strlen(base64).
Since DEST is assumed to contain binary data, it is not
NUL-terminated. The function returns the length of the data
written to TO. -1 is returned in case of error caused by malformed
- base64 input. */
+ base64 input.
+
+ This function originates from Free Recode. */
int
base64_decode (const char *base64, void *dest)