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Subject: Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF Tag Value Count issue
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> I don't see any compelling reason libtiff could not be made to support bigtiff
> files smaller than 4GB on machines without a 64bit integer type.  I would
> forsee the toff_t (and possibly tsize_t) types being 64 bits on platforms that
> allow it and 32bit otherwise.  The code that reads the tags would need a
> special case for non-64bit-int platforms to downcast the values and throw some
> sort of error if there are any values that don't fit in a 32bit value.
>
> While I imagine it will be some time till BigTIFF support catches on for
> general use, I would not want to preclude it's use in all environments.

Frank,

I hadn't considered this option. The way you suggest here does indeed seem by
far the best.


Joris Van Damme
info@awaresystems.be
http://www.awaresystems.be
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