2004.09.17 15:10 "RE: [Tiff] BigTIFF Tag Value Count issue", by Bob Friesenhahn

I understand that libtiff is written in C, but I believe that a TIFF specification should not assume anything about implementation languages.

Some possible implementation languages do not even support unsigned types.

If BigTIFF defines unsigned 64-bit quantities, it will make life for Java applications more difficult and possibly slower, although not impossible.

Is there an alternative to using unsigned 64-bit values to access large data?

Bob

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Bob Friesenhahn
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