zlib fails on Uint8Array

[nyurik]

• Version: 6.9.1
• Platform: Linux 4.8.0-41-generic README: fix prerequisite list formatting #44~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 3 17:11:16 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Large buffers (300k+) stored as Uint8Array throw an exception when passed to zlib.gzipSync(data), even though zlibBufferSync() seems to work just fine after modifying the parameter type validation at

node/lib/zlib.js

Line 124 in 98e54b0

if (!(buffer instanceof Buffer))

[targos]

This is being fixed in #12001.

[addaleax]

Fixed by 91383e4, thanks for the report! The commit will most likely be included in the 8.0.0 release later in April.