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authorEven Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>2023-05-16 17:40:05 +0000
committerEven Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>2023-05-16 17:40:05 +0000
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Merge branch 'fix_558' into 'master'HEADmaster
Hardcode HOST_FILLORDER to FILLORDER_LSB2MSB, and make 'H' flag of TIFFOpen()... See merge request libtiff/libtiff!488
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operating system-specific routines to do I/O and I/O-related operations.
The UNIX (:file:`tif_unix.c`) code has had the most use.
-Native CPU byte order is determined on the fly by
-the library and does not need to be specified.
-The :c:macro:`HOST_FILLORDER` and :c:macro:`HOST_BIGENDIAN`
-definitions are not currently used, but may be employed by
-codecs for optimization purposes.
+Native CPU byte order is determined through the :c:macro:`WORDS_BIGENDIAN`
+definition, which must be set to the appropriate value in :file:`tif_config.h`
+by the build system.
The following defines control general portability: