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Subject: Re: [Tiff] WORDS_BIGENDIAN used inconsistently
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Hi Bob,

Maybe this explanation should be inserted in the header of both .h files  ...

regards,
rob tillaart 

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Dwight Kelly wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the purpose of having both tif_config.h and tiffconfig.h ?
> >
> > tif_config.h is used only by the library and libtiff tools and is not 
> > installed.
> >
> > tiffconfig.h needs to exist for legacy reasons (lots of applications 
> > depend on it).  It includes "feature" defines so that applications can 
> > see what features are in the libtiff when the application is built. It 
> > includes basic type definitions needed by the installed tiff header 
> > files.

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