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1999.07.02 17:10 "Problem with byte order", by Thomas Ledoux
Hello,
I have recently find what seems to be a bug in the libtiff.
I need to generate multipage TIFF on a Sun but wanted to have them encoded
in Intel order (little-endian). So I use the (not recommended) option "lL"
during
the TIFFOpen sequence to do that.
Everything goes right except for a little single problem that makes my
files
not TIFF-compliant.
When I try to write a ASCII tag (like PageName), with a less that 4 bytes
string,
the string is written in the 4 bytes value/offset holder (which is normal)
but in the
reverse order ...
The specification says that this holder has to be used in a left justified
way :
"If the Value is shorter than 4 bytes, it is left-justified within the
4-byte Value Offset,
i.e., stored in the lower-numbered bytes." but my string gets written in
the 4 bytes
like this :
<garbage> <garbage> '\0' '1'
and not
'1' '\0' <garbage> <garbage>
Is there any patch for this ?
Thanks
Thomas