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2005.03.15 16:15 "Re: LibTIFF question", by Frank Warmerdam
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:06:54 +0100, Joris <joris.at.lebbeke@skynet.be> wrote: > > As a sidenote, I'm seeing this declaration in tiffio.h: > > extern const TIFFFieldInfo* TIFFFindFieldInfo(TIFF*, ttag_t, TIFFDataType); > > This seems covered by this define in tif_dir.h: > > #define _TIFFFindFieldInfo TIFFFindFieldInfo > > Is why I thought the function, or at least the version without underscore > prefix, was external in LibTiff. I've also treated it as external in > LibTiffDelphi. Joris, Umm ... cool. I wonder why it is complicated like this. Worse yet, I wonder if I did this? I suspect it used to be internal (hence the underscore) and the #define just was a way of transitioning it to external while not having to hunt down all the internal locations that called it _TIFFFindFieldInfo. Still it seems unnecessarily messy. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent