ess to information about the compression
method to aid in memory allocation.  In the current implementation of <em>zlib</em>
(up through versions 1.2.x), the method-dependent memory allocations are deferred to the first call of
<tt>inflate()</tt> anyway.  However those fields must be initialized since later versions
of <em>zlib</em> that provide more compression methods may take advantage of this interface.
In any case, no decompression is performed by <tt>inflateInit()</tt>, so the
<tt>avail_out</tt> and <