2004.07.11 21:35 "Re: [Tiff] CVS libtiff & thandle_t", by Bob Friesenhahn

typedef int thandle_t;          /* client data handle */
#endif

Note that outside of Windows, thandle_t is is typedef 'int'. ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick, and likely other software, have been passing pointers via the thandle_t argument of TIFFClientOpen() since thandle_t used to be defined as void*.

Bob, thanks for pointing that, fixed.

The other key point is that it seemed that libtiff was relying on the operating system's off_t type and now libtiff is defining a type to specifically handle 4 GB offsets. For 64-bit CPUs this represents an ABI change because off_t is likely a 'long' (64 bit) type rather than a 32-bit type.

Libtiff's change makes sense for 32-bit CPUs.

Bob

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