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From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Loygorri, Fernando wrote:
>
> 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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