2008.08.08 05:15 "[Tiff] Writing custom fields with big counts.", by Tom Harris

2008.08.11 13:18 "[Tiff] Custom fields and BIGTIFF (was: Writing custom fields with big counts)", by Edward Lam

Hi,

Tom brings up an issue regardless with _TIFFField's field_readcount and field_writecount though. What's the reason for still keeping them 16-bit in libtiff 4.0? Joris? Is there a TODO item still to deal with these? It strikes me that now might be a good time to switch them to 64-bit?

-Edward

I am writing my custom tag as described on the docs page "Adding NewTags".

What I have found is that if your count is greater than 32767, the field_readcount and the field_writecount members of the TIFFFieldInfo struct must be set to TIFF_VARIABLE2 (-3), not TIFF_VARIABLE (-1). This forces 32 bit access, rather than 16 bit access.

Someone with commit rights to the docs might care to update the passage:

``The special value TIFF_VARIABLE2 (-3) is presumably similar to TIFF_VARIABLE though I am not sure what the distinction in behaviour is. This field is TIFF_VARIABLE for variable length ascii fields.''

To:

``If a variable number of values are to be read (such as for variable length ascii fields), then this field is set to TIFF_VARIABLE. However, if the count is to be greater than 32767, then the field must be set to TIFF_VARIABLE2 to force 32 bit access.''

Regards