2009.10.28 09:01 "[Tiff] Number of images in a multi-tiff file?", by Mark Pereira

2009.10.29 02:27 "Re: [Tiff] Libtiff release soon, please advise", by Edward Lam

I plan to cut new libtiff releases soon. While I don't intend to fix

all existing (or many) known bugs before those releases are cut (and there are many bugs listed in libtiff bugzilla), this would be a good

time to remind of any dire issues known to exist which should

> definitely be fixed before a libtiff release.

I only looked at what caught my eye on the list. Bug 2001 seems like important low hanging fruit to do before final release:

     http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2001

Basically, it is saying that we should be adding -fno-strict-aliasing to the gcc (3+?) compiler options when compiling with -O2. Probably none of libtiff was written with strict aliasing in mind? If so, it sounds like a good and easy thing to do for avoiding potential bad code generation.

Regards,

-Edward