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2007.09.12 03:36 "SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG", by Frank Warmerdam
Folks,
libtiff now (I'm not clear on how recent this is) checks
SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG in tif_fax3.c and has an alternate form
of the FILL() macro for 64bit systems. This introduced a bug in
GDAL which didn't declare the SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG macro when doing
"libtiff internal" builds on 64bit systems.
The code looks like:
#if SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG == 8
# define FILL(n, cp) \
switch (n) { \
case 15:(cp)[14] = 0xff; case 14:(cp)[13] = 0xff; case 13: (cp)[12] = 0xff;\
case 12:(cp)[11] = 0xff; case 11:(cp)[10] = 0xff; case 10: (cp)[9] = 0xff;\
case 9: (cp)[8] = 0xff; case 8: (cp)[7] = 0xff; case 7: (cp)[6] = 0xff;\
case 6: (cp)[5] = 0xff; case 5: (cp)[4] = 0xff; case 4: (cp)[3] = 0xff;\
case 3: (cp)[2] = 0xff; case 2: (cp)[1] = 0xff; \
case 1: (cp)[0] = 0xff; (cp) += (n); case 0: ; \
}
...
#else
# define FILL(n, cp) \
switch (n) { \
case 7: (cp)[6] = 0xff; case 6: (cp)[5] = 0xff; case 5: (cp)[4] = 0xff; \
case 4: (cp)[3] = 0xff; case 3: (cp)[2] = 0xff; case 2: (cp)[1] = 0xff; \
case 1: (cp)[0] = 0xff; (cp) += (n); case 0: ; \
}
...
#endif
The concern I have is that this code defaults to assuming 32bit if the
macro is not defined, and it produces incorrect results if the unsigned
long is actually 64bit.
I wonder if we should either:
o Require that SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG be explicitly 8 or 4, and if it is not
defined we #error to stop the build.
o Add some sort of runtime checking to detect that sizeof(unsigned long) is
actually 4 if SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG is not defined.
It would make things somewhat less fragile (with hard to discover errors).
Best regards,
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