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2009.02.14 11:55 "Different output with the same image???", by <blp330@msn.com>
2009.02.14 15:55 "Re: Different output with the same image???", by <blp330@msn.com>
2009.02.16 12:03 "Re: Different output with the same image???", by Gerben Vos
2009.02.16 15:10 "Re: Different output with the same image???", by Bob Friesenhahn

2009.02.16 15:10 "Re: Different output with the same image???", by Bob Friesenhahn

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Gerben Vos wrote:
>
> Did you write this image using libtiff? It would be best if libtiff
> would always write bytes like this with a zero value, so I would
> consider this a (minor) bug. (Never write data from uninitialized
> buffers, to prevent data leakage and security/privacy issues and all
> that stuff.)

This behavior also tends to annoy memory check tools like valgrind, 
making it more difficult to dignose issues in libtiff, and its 
dependent application.

Bob
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