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2009.10.07 19:25 "Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Eskandar Ensafi
2009.10.07 19:59 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Bob Friesenhahn
2009.10.07 20:11 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Eskandar Ensafi
2009.10.07 20:24 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Toby Thain
2009.10.07 20:28 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Edward Lam
2009.10.07 21:26 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Bob Friesenhahn
2009.10.07 20:47 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Igor Skochinsky
2009.10.07 21:10 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Toby Thain
2009.10.07 20:17 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Bob Friesenhahn
2009.10.07 20:40 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Edward Lam
2009.10.07 21:43 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Bob Friesenhahn

2009.10.07 20:17 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Bob Friesenhahn

> 
> In the tiff-4.0 source code, I traced the problem to line 16124 of 
> the configure script (or line 327 of configure.ac), where the script 
> checks for i*86* instead of i*86*|x86_64.  Unless there is a good 
> reason for the native bit order to be MSB-to-LSB on x86_64, I 
> believe that this is a bug and needs to be corrected so that all 
> Intel and AMD x86 varieties are properly identified as LSB-to-MSB 
> architectures.

This issue is now fixed in libtiff CVS.

Hopefully someone will speak up if this was the wrong decision.

Bob
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