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1994.03.17 02:56 "I believe that I've found a bug in tif_write.c", by Dave Hylands

     The function TIFFWriteTile passes "(tsize_t) -1" as the last parameter 
     to the call TIFFWriteEncodedTile. When tsize_t was declared to be a 
     uint32 this would be a very large positve number, however, since 
     tsize_t has been redeclared as an int32, it is now a negative number.
     
     TIFFWriteEncodedTile has the following test:
     
     if (cc > tif->tif_tilesize)
        cc = tif->tif_tilesize;
     
     This of course does nothing when cc == -1.
     
     The "clamp" test should also test for negative numbers, or 
     TIFFWriteTile should pass an appropriate large positive number.
     
     I noticed this when trying to use tiffcp to convert a strip based file 
     to a tile based file. The routine ran and produced a TIFF file with no 
     image data.
     
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