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2004.09.17 21:36 "Re: BigTIFF Tag Value Count issue", by Chris Cox
At 9:31 AM -0500 9/17/04, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Joris wrote: > > > > If I'm not mistaking, on most processors there is a gain from > > aligning of data, > > whilst things still work if data is not aligned. Thus, it pays to build > > With some processors (particularly RISC type processors), attempting > to read unaligned data results in a program crash. Probably Intel > x86 is not one of those processors. For file reading, that shouldn't be an issue. Either you read into a temporary directly, or use a memory map and copy into a temporary (making it easier to byte swap). Chris