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2004.09.17 15:02 "Re: BigTIFF Tag Value Count issue", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > > Which is why, in general, the reading code ignores native file alignment, > and just memcpy()'s stuff into the proper variables before accessing it. > I don't think alignment is going to help libtiff itself very much because > libtiff can't depend on it and remain portable. We could try and have Right. Libtiff needs to work on any modern processor without tweaking so it needs to do extra data marshalling. Applications which attempt to access the data directly are likely to be proprietary applications where all factors are known in advance. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen