Here is a BCJ only CFFI test project.
https://github.com/miurahr/bcj-cffi

It imports two bcj_x86 C sources, one is from liblzma (src/xz_bcj_x86.c) taht is bind with python's lzma module, and the other is from xz-embbed project for linux kernel.(src/xz_simple_bcj.c)

We can observe that

1. it has an interface which overwrite buffer
2. it returns good resulted buffer (digest assertion) in both case
3. it returns 4 bytes less size than expected.

for 3, it is because return value  of BCJ is defined such as

```
	size -= 4;
	for (i = 0; i < size; ++i) {...}
        return i;
```
and  variable i sometimes increment 4 bytes when target sequence is found and processed.

It may be natural that a size value returned from BCJ filter is often 4 bytes smaller than actual.