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2009.10.07 21:43 "Re: Wrong Native Bit Order on Intel x86_64", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Toby Thain wrote: > > As I understand it, the problem is not in the reading and writing code or > runtime behaviour, but relates to determination of the built default (May not > match platform's "actual" machine default.) > > The 'bug' would be at build-time, but it seems relatively unimportant to get > right, esp. for a C library. I hope that you don't mind that I am Cc:ing this response to the list since it is an important issue to correct properly. If the default is wrong, then the best-case penalty is that CPU is wasted executing TIFFReverseBits() when writing and reading files on the same system and the user explicitly specified the fill-order tag correctly for the CPU. The worst-case penalty is that the files can't be read by some other host. Since it took three years for this issue to be reported, the worst-case penalty seems unlikely since interoperability issues are noticed right away, and because no one has reported fill-order issues on unusual CPUs. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/